It is unwise to obscure the plan of a text-book such as this by the introduction of controversial matter: the directions and statements there fore have been made intentionally dogmatic. Students who discover numerous exceptions and side — issues must be generous enough to remember this. In addition to the use of this book, and the music to be studied in connection with it, the student should (i) attend every orchestral concert possible, and always sit where he can see the players well, (2) cultivate from the first the habit of playing from score he should play all the scores he writes and as much as he can of those chosen for study; (3) copy out one or more full scores from the set of separate orchestral parts; (4) score some well4 handbook OF orchestration.