At the Gates of the Past

In the Land of Myth—The Pursuit of the Gods

In the Land of Egypt—The Lady Maket and her Flutes

In the Land of Egypt—More Egyptian Flutes—The Evidences of the Scale—The Teachings of Experiments

In the Land of Etruria—The Greco-Etruscan Double Flutes—The Bulbed or Subulo Flutes

In the Land of Greece—From Etruria to Athens—The Sweet Monaulos

In the Land of Greece—The Silkworm Flutes, or Bombyx Flutes

In Oscan Land—Italia—Found at Pompeii—The Greco-Roman Flutes

Back to the Land of the Nile—Egypt Reveals the Secret

The Isles of Greece—Midas the Glorious

Near the City of Charites—The Mystery of the “Slender Brass”

At the Delphic Temple—The Music heard by the Greeks

In the Land of China—The Outspread Phoenix

The Mongols New Home—The Mythical Finding of the LÜs

In the Flowery Kingdom—The Bird’s Nest

By the Yellow River—The Evolution of the Sheng

In the Land of Siam—The Siamese “Phan”

In the Land of Japan—Japanese Pitch Pipes and the Japanese Clarionet and the Sho

In Ancient China—Ceremonial Instruments

In Ancient China—The Flutes of the Chinese

In Ancient China—The Favourite of Confucius

In Ancient China—The Trumpets of the Chinese

The Music heard in Far Cathay—The Oldest Written Music

Evolution of the Lyre, Harp, and Lute—The Bow with the Boat

The Choice of the Greeks—The Delphic Lyre

How The Music Grew—In the Days of a Thousand Years

At Alexandria—The Final Settlement of the Scale

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