today the one stressing individual freedom, the other social control; naturally they affect the creative processes of music. The place of the composer in the new world is by no means ideal but we have not reached the point where the Adminis- tration of Propaganda and Agitation has been asked to correct the situation, liquidate the shortcomings of composers and provide for the development of music "along realistic lines".
Writings of Musicians and thoughts about music will always be used as documentary supplements to notation. It was a happy idea to make this Book of Musical Documents, for such an anthology, besides being interesting to the scholar is both instructive and pleasing to the layman.
CARLETON SPRAGUE SMITH
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Publication Information: Book Title: The Book of Musical Documents. Contributors: Paul Nettl - author. Publisher: Philosophical Library. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1948. Page Number: x.
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