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This new Dover edition, first published in 1962,
is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the
following:

Monsieur Croche the Dilettante Hater by Claude Debussy
, as published by Noel Douglas in 1927. Translated
by B. N. Langdon Davies. Copyright © 1928 by The Viking
Press, Inc.

Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music by Ferruccio Busoni
, as published by G. Schirmer, Inc., ca. 1911.
Translated from the German by Dr. Th. Baker.

Essays before a Sonata by Charles E. Ives, as pub-
lished by The Knickerbocker Press in 1920.

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