print, and which, for sufficiently good reasons, I shall never republish in their original forms or under their original titles. These volumes naturally contain much material that I should never care to reprint; moreover the later volumes include not only papers on musical subjects but also my first attempts at fictional sketches, for it was necessary for me to convince myself that I could write fiction before I undertook to do so on a large scale. There were also to be considered a number of papers which had appeared in magazines, but which had not yet been published in book form.
After a reperusal of the books in question—I may say that it is a habit of mine never to reread one of my books after it has come out, except for some reason like the present one—I have selected such papers on musical subjects as I care to preserve, save for a few dealing with specific composers, later to find their niches in a book to be entitled Excavations, which will also include papers on certain figures in the literary world whose reputations I have had some share in rescuing from comparative obscurity.
Music for the Movies is lifted from Music and Bad Manners; Why Music Is Unpopular, The Great American Composer, and The Importance of Electrical Picture Concerts, from Interpreters and Interpretations; The Authoritative Work on American Music and The New Art
