Lectures on Music by Mr. Dolmetsch

Under the auspices of the Division of Music a series of twelve illustrated lectures on the secular music and musical instruments of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries will be given by Mr. Arnold Dolmetsch, in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, on Monday and Friday afternoons, at 4.30 o'clock, beginning Friday, February 17. The first four lectures will be especially connected with the musical references contained in the works of the English dramatists and poets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The dates and titles of the lectures, all of which are open to the public, are as follows:

Feb. 17.--Music at the Court of King Henry VIII.

Feb. 20.--Elizabethan Music.

Feb. 24.--Elizabethan Music.

Feb. 27.--English Music, 1630 to 1675.

Mar. 3.--The Works of Henry Purcell.

Mar. 6.--Italian and Spanish Music of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.

Mar. 10.--French and German Music of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.

Mar. 13.--Italian Music of the Eighteenth Century.

Mar. 17.--French Music of the Eighteenth Century.

Mar. 20.--The Works of Handel.

Mar. 24.--The Works of J. S. Rach.

Mar. 27.--The Transition Period between Bach and Haydn