One of the most important musicologists of his age, Hugo Riemann (1849 1919) influenced an entire generation in its thinking. He held several teaching posts before settling at the University of Leipzig in 1895. A prolific writer on music theory, publishing works on almost every aspect of the subject, he is best remembered for his celebrated Musik-Lexikon (1882). These three lectures, setting out his thinking on how we listen to music, were first published in 1888 as Wie horen wir Musik? and in 1895 in this English translation by Heinrich Bewerunge (1862 1923), plainchant scholar at St...