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How music grew, from prehistoric times to the present day

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Some Instruments of the American Indian 20

Hieroglyphics on an Egyptian Tablet 21

Greek Girl Playing a Double Flute (Auloi) 30

Greek Boy Playing the Lyre 31

Chinese Instruments 44

Fiddles from Arabia, Japan, Corea and Siam 45

The Koto-Player 46

The Wandering Samisen-Player 47

Instruments of Burmah and Siam 52

A Burmese Musicale 53

Laura Williams, American Singer of Arab Songs 58

Hindu Instruments 66, 67

St. Cecelia, Patron Saint of Music 72

The Book of Peace 73

Boys with a Lute 128

A Peasant Wedding 129

A Lady at the Clavier (Clavichord) 186

xviiiA Lady Playing the Theorbo (Luth) 187

Chevalier Christoph Willibald von Gluck 274

The Boy Mozart 275

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 292

Ludwig van Beethoven 293

Johann Sebastian Bach 306

George Frederick Handel 306

Franz Josef Haydn 306

Carl Maria van Weber 306

The Piano and its Grand-parents 307

Franz Schubert 358

Robert Schumann 358

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy 358

Frédéric Chopin 358

Richard Wagner, the Wizard 359

Georges Bizet 388

Vincent d’Indy 389

Camille Saint-Saëns 389

Jules Massenet 389

Gustave Charpentier 389

Hector Berlioz 402

Franz Liszt 403

Johannes Brahms at Home 418

xixCésar Franck 419

Edward MacDowell 492

Charles Griffes 493

Claude Achille Debussy 516

Maurice Ravel 516

Arnold Schoenberg 517

Igor Stravinsky 517

Arthur Honegger 538

Darius Milhaud 538

Béla Bartók 538

Louis Gruenberg 538

G. Francesco Malipiero 539

Alfredo Casella 539

Arnold Bax 539

Eugene Goossens 539

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