The World's Earliest Music
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- Traced to Its Beginnings in Ancient Lands by Collected Evidence of Relics, Records, History, and Musical Instruments from Greece, Etruria, Egypt, China, Through Asyria and Babylonia, to the Primitive Home, the Land of Akkad and Sumer
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1. Front matter2. THE World’s Earliest Music: TRACED TO ITS BEGINNINGS IN ANCIENT LANDS,3. FOREWORD.4. Introductory material5. CHAPTER I. At the Gates of the Past.6. CHAPTER II. In the Land of Myth. THE PURSUIT OF THE GODS.7. CHAPTER III. In the Land of Egypt. THE LADY MAKET AND HER FLUTES.8. CHAPTER IV. In the Land of Egypt. MORE EGYPTIAN FLUTES: THE EVIDENCES OF THE SCALE.9. CHAPTER V. In the Land of Etruria. THE GRECO-ETRUSCAN DOUBLE FLUTES.10. CHAPTER VI. In the Land of Greece. FROM ETRURIA TO ATHENS.11. CHAPTER VII. In the Land of Greece. THE SILKWORM FLUTES, OR BOMBYX FLUTES.12. CHAPTER VIII. In Oscan Land.—Italia. FOUND AT POMPEII.13. CHAPTER IX. Back to the Land of the Nile. EGYPT REVEALS THE SECRET.14. CHAPTER X. The Isles of Greece. MIDAS THE GLORIOUS.15. CHAPTER XI. Near the City of Charites. THE MYSTERY OF THE “SLENDER BRASS.”16. CHAPTER XII. At the Delphic Temple. THE MUSIC HEARD BY THE GREEKS.17. CHAPTER XIII. In the Land of China. THE OUTSPREAD PHŒNIX.18. CHAPTER XIV. The Mongols’ New Home. THE MYTHICAL FINDING OF THE LÜS.19. CHAPTER XV. In the Flowery Kingdom. THE BIRD’S NEST.20. CHAPTER XVI. By the Yellow River. THE EVOLUTION OF THE SHENG.21. CHAPTER XVII. In the Land of Siam. THE SIAMESE “PHAN.”22. CHAPTER XVIII. In the Land of Japan. JAPANESE PITCH PIPES AND THE JAPANESE CLARIONET AND THE SHO.23. CHAPTER XIX. In Ancient China. CEREMONIAL INSTRUMENTS.24. CHAPTER XX. In Ancient China. THE FLUTES OF THE CHINESE.25. CHAPTER XXI. In Ancient China. THE FAVOURITE OF CONFUCIUS.26. CHAPTER XXII. In Ancient China. THE TRUMPETS OF THE CHINESE.27. CHAPTER XXIII. The Music Heard in Far Cathay. THE OLDEST WRITTEN MUSIC.28. CHAPTER XXIV. Evolution of the Lyre, Harp, and Lute. THE BOW WITH THE BOAT.29. CHAPTER XXV. The Choice of the Greeks. THE DELPHIC LYRE.30. CHAPTER XXVI. How the Music Grew. IN THE DAYS OF A THOUSAND YEARS.31. CHAPTER XXVII. At Alexandria. THE FINAL SETTLEMENT OF THE SCALE.32. Index.33. ERRATA.