Download or read book Songs and Song Writers (Classic Reprint) written by Henry T. Finck and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Songs and Song Writers How is this unfortunate condition to be remedied? Professional singers, with the ex ception of a few Of the greatest, like the four just referred to, do not usually select songs for their beauty, but for the Opportunity they give them to show of! Their voices to best advan tage. This throws on the amateurs themselves the task of finding out what are the best songs. Few of them, however, have time or Opportun ity to travel over the whole vast field them selves, winnowing the chafl from the wheat. It is to save them this trouble that the present volume has been prepared - the first of its kind, strange to say, in any language. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.