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A Popular History of the Art of Music

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Illustration from A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present

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Chart of Greatest Composers 11

Chart of Italian Composers 12

Chart of German Composers 13

Pianists and Composers for Piano 14

King David Playing the Three-stringed Crwth 24

Egyptian Representations, 4th Dynasty 28

Bruce's Harpers 30

Harp and Musicians of 20th Dynasty 32

Lyres Found in Tombs 33

Women, Street Musicians 34

Shoulder Harps 35

Kinnor 42

Larger Jewish Harp 43

Assyrian Harps 45

Assyrian Banjo 46

Assyrian Psaltery 47

Greek Lyres 64

Music to Ode of Pindar 69

Hindoo Vina 71

Ravanastron 72

Chinese Ke 74

Japanese Ko-Ko 76

Old Breton Song 88

Old Welsh Song 92

Welsh Song in Praise of Love 94

Harp of Sir Brian Boirohen 97

Facsimile "Sumer is Icumen In" 101

The Same Written out 102

Saxon Harp 104

Saxon Harp 105

Crwth 107

Scotch Pentatonic Melody 108

Arab Rebec 112

Arab Eoud 113

Arab Santir 114

Song by Thibaut, 13th Century 122

Reinmar, the Minnesinger 124

Frauenlob 125

Minstrel Harps 126

Gregorian and Ambrosian Scales 132

Hucbald's Staff 141

Diaphony 141

Diaphony in Fourths 142

Guido of Arezzo 144

Table of the Schools of the Netherlands 162

Orlando di Lassus 167

Music by Palestrina 176 to 178

Roman Letter Notation of Guido 181

Neumæ of 10th Century 181

Neumæ of 11th Century 182

Neumæ with Lines 183

Lament for Charlemagne 184

Early Staff of Five Lines 185

Lute 191

Tuning of the Lute 192

Early Forms of Rebec 195

Angel Playing Rebec, 13th Century 196

Viol da Gamba 197

Barytone 198

Stradivarius Violin 200

Old Organ 202

Portable Organ 204

Bellows Bags at Halberstadt 206

Concert of 7th Century 208

Extract, Peri's "Eurydice" 225

Aria, Monteverde's "Arianna" 230

Aria, Cavalli's "Erismena" 231

Aria, Scarlatti's Cantata 232

Aria, Lulli's "Roland" 240

Heinrich Schütz 246

Jean Pieters Swelinck 251

Samuel Scheidt 252

Johann Adam Reinken 254

John Sebastian Bach 266

Geo. Friedrich Händel 274

Joseph Haydn 286

The Mozart Family 293

Mozart (Miss Stock) 300

Mozart 302

Beethoven 311

Beethoven as He Appeared on the Street 314

Beethoven Autograph 315

Facsimile Title Page Mss. Beethoven 318

Gluck 329

Grétry 340

Boieldieu 343

Purcell 350

J.L. Dussek 358

Hummel 362

Moscheles 363

Schubert 390

Spinet, 1590 393

Ornamentation of Same 394

Another View of the Same 395

Mozart's Grand Piano 396

Cristofori's Design of Action 397

His Action as Made in 1726 398

Érard Grand Action 399

Steinway Iron Frame and Over-stringing 400

Carl Maria von Weber 407

Meyerbeer 412

Richard Wagner 417

Mme. Schröder-Devrient 420

Paganini 430

Paganini in Concert (Landseer) 431

Chopin 442

Liszt 452, 453

Hauptmann 460

Mendelssohn 462

Schumann 476

Rossini 480

Verdi 484

Auber 489

Gade 498

Sterndale-Bennett502

Rubinstein 506

Transcriber's Note: The listed illustration of Sterndale-Bennett is not in the original book, and the illustration of Gade is actually on page 518. There are additional illustrations, not listed above, of Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Smetana, Dvorak, and Grieg. Some illustrations have been moved slightly from their original locations to avoid breaking the flow of text. The page numbers above are the originals; the links point to the actual locations of the illustrations in this e-text.

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