Charles Dickens and Music

Project Gutenberg's Charles Dickens and Music, by James T. Lightwood This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Charles Dickens and Music Author: James T. Lightwood Release Date: August 25, 2005 [EBook #16595] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHARLES DICKENS AND MUSIC *** Produced by David Newman, Daniel Emerson Griffith and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Tom Pinch at the Organ. Frontispiece. CHARLES DICKENS AND MUSIC BY JAMES T. LIGHTWOOD Author of ‘Hymn-Tunes and their Story’ London CHARLES H. KELLY 25-35 CITY ROAD, AND 26 PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C. First Edition, 1912 IN PLEASANT MEMORY OF MANY HAPPY YEARS AT PEMBROKE HOUSE, LYTHAM PREFACE For many years I have been interested in the various musical references in Dickens' works, and have had the impression that a careful examination of his writings would reveal an aspect of his character hitherto unknown, and, I may add, unsuspected.