For Every Music Lover

Could a duck have supplied the model for the clarinet, and a rooster for the trumpet? A French historian in 1835 seriously thought so.

Writing in the early twentieth century, Aubertine Woodward Moore sets out to trace music from its mysterious beginnings to the art of her own day. Her practical essays range from ancient myths of music’s divine birth to Herbert Spencer’s theory that it grew from the inflections of emotional speech. Moore treats music not as a privilege for a select few, but as a language rooted in human feeling and shaped through centuries of experiment. How did cries of joy and distress become an art that seems to open a window on the infinite?

With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world.

Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We give them the treatment they deserve; our proprietary process restores books for a better overall user experience in design, readability, and e-reader compatibility.