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CONTENTS.
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165. The History of a Violin, 163
210. The Manual Labor of Composition, 207
275. The Modern Tendency, 271
29. The Music but Not the Face, 35
107. The "Ox" Minuet, 103
140. The Peculiarities of Genius, 141
118. The Prima Donna of the Eighteenth Century, 116
245. The “Prison Josephs," 241
77. The Right Kind of a Patron, 76
268. The Story of Mozart's Requiem, 264
62. The Temple Organ, 63
189. The Thirty-three Variations, 187
120. The Ups and Downs of a Singer's Life, 118
221. The World's Reward to Genius, 217
21. The Youthful Beethoven's Trick on a Singer, 27
185. Their Favorite Surroundings for Composition, 182
59. Three Classes of Players, 60
294. To a Pauper's Grave, 292
236. To Make a Player Play, 231
168. Too Literal, 166
31. Traveling in State, 36
237. True Kindliness, 232
32. Tuning Up, 37
147. Two Kinds of Bills, 147
145. Unfailing Sight Reading an Impossibility, 146
48. Unlucky Manuscripts, 50
174. Violin Collectors, 172
238. Viotti's Independence, 233
129. Viotti's Tin Fiddle, 129
33. Voice Against Trumpet, 38
148. Von Bülow as a Political Speaker, 149
184. Von Bülow's Memory, 182
212. Von Bülow's Peculiarities, 209
171. Von Weber to a Bawling Choir, 169
166. "Vorts" vs. Music, 164
204. Vox Populi, 201
255. Wagner's Activity, 250
203. Wagner and the Beggars, 200
84. Wagner's Melodies and Chords, 83
137. Wagner's Working Costume, 137
205. What's in a Name, 202
258. When They Began, 253
16. Whims of Composers, 24
3. Why We Should Sing, 11
161. Wine and Music, 160