top $3.25
In half morocco, gilt edges 3.75
In tree calf, gilt edges 5.50

The "Standard Cantatas" forms the third volume in the uniform series
which already includes the now well known "Standard Operas" and the
"Standard Oratorios." This latest work deals with a class of musical
compositions, midway between the opera and the oratorio, which is
growing rapidly in favor both with composers and audiences.

As in the two former works, the subject is treated, so far as possible,
in an untechnical manner, so that it may satisfy the needs of musically
uneducated music lovers, and add to their enjoyment by a plain
statement of the story of the cantata and a popular analysis of its
music, with brief pertinent selections from its poetical text.

The book includes a comprehensive essay on the origin of the cantata,
and its development from rude beginnings; biographical sketches of the
composers; carefully prepared descriptions of the plots and the music;
and an appendix containing the names and dates of composition of all
the best known cantatas from the earliest times.

This series of works on popular music has steadily grown in favor since
the appearance of the first volume on the Operas. When the series is
completed, as it will be next year by a volume on the Standard
Symphonies, it will be, as the New York 'Nation' has said,
indispensable to every musical library.

_Sold by all booksellers, or mailed, post-paid, on receipt of price,
by_

A.C. McCLURG & CO., Publishers,
Cor. Wabash Ave. and Madison St., Chicago.

BIOGRAPHIES OF MUSICIANS.

LIFE OF LISZT. With Portrait.
LIFE OF HAYDN. With Portrait.
LIFE OF MOZART. With Portrait.
LIFE OF WAGNER. With Portrait.
LIFE OF BEETHOVEN. With Portrait.

_From the German of Dr. Louis Nohl._

In cloth, per volume $ .75
The same, in neat box, per set 3.75
In half calf, per set 12.00

Of the "Life of Liszt," the _Herald_ (Boston) says: "It is written in
great simplicity and perfect taste, and is wholly successful in all
that it undertakes to portray."

Of the "Life of Haydn," the _Gazette_ (Boston) says: "No fuller history
of Haydn's career, the society in which he moved, and of his personal
life can be found than is given in this work."