FOREWORD.
CONTENTS.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
CHAPTER I. At the Gates of the Past.
CHAPTER II. In the Land of Myth. THE PURSUIT OF THE GODS.
CHAPTER III. In the Land of Egypt. THE LADY MAKET AND HER FLUTES.
CHAPTER IV. In the Land of Egypt. MORE EGYPTIAN FLUTES: THE EVIDENCES OF THE SCALE.
CHAPTER V. In the Land of Etruria. THE GRECO-ETRUSCAN DOUBLE FLUTES.
CHAPTER VI. In the Land of Greece. FROM ETRURIA TO ATHENS.
CHAPTER VII. In the Land of Greece. THE SILKWORM FLUTES, OR BOMBYX FLUTES.
CHAPTER VIII. In Oscan Land. Italia. FOUND AT POMPEII.
CHAPTER IX. Back to the Land of the Nile. EGYPT REVEALS THE SECRET.
CHAPTER X. The Isles of Greece. MIDAS THE GLORIOUS.
CHAPTER XI. Near the City of Charites. THE MYSTERY OF THE "SLENDER BRASS."
CHAPTER XII. At the Delphic Temple. THE MUSIC HEARD BY THE GREEKS.
CHAPTER XIII. In the Land of China. THE OUTSPREAD PHOENIX.
CHAPTER XIV. The Mongols' New Home. THE MYTHICAL FINDING OF THE LuS.
CHAPTER XV. In the Flowery Kingdom. THE BIRD'S NEST.
CHAPTER XVI. By the Yellow River. THE EVOLUTION OF THE SHENG.
CHAPTER XVII. In the Land of Siam. THE SIAMESE "PHAN."
CHAPTER XVIII. In the Land of Japan. JAPANESE PITCH PIPES AND THE JAPANESE CLARIONET AND THE SHO.
CHAPTER XIX. In Ancient China. CEREMONIAL INSTRUMENTS.
CHAPTER XX. In Ancient China. THE FLUTES OF THE CHINESE.
CHAPTER XXI. In Ancient China. THE FAVOURITE OF CONFUCIUS.
CHAPTER XXII. In Ancient China. THE TRUMPETS OF THE CHINESE.
CHAPTER XXIII. The Music Heard in Far Cathay. THE OLDEST WRITTEN MUSIC.
CHAPTER XXIV. Evolution of the Lyre, Harp, and Lute. THE BOW WITH THE BOAT.
CHAPTER XXV. The Choice of the Greeks. THE DELPHIC LYRE.
CHAPTER XXVI. How the Music Grew. IN THE DAYS OF A THOUSAND YEARS.
CHAPTER XXVII. At Alexandria. THE FINAL SETTLEMENT OF THE SCALE.
Index.
ERRATA.
Title: The World's Earliest Music
Traced to Its Beginnings in Ancient Lands
Author: Hermann Smith
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| APOLLO WITH HIS LYRE. |
| APOLLO WITH HIS LYRE. | (described page 323. |
| From a marble relief by Praxiteles in the Museum at Athens. |
“The eye is blind when the mind does not see.”—Arab Proverb.
THE
World’s Earliest Music:
TRACED TO ITS BEGINNINGS
IN ANCIENT LANDS,
BY COLLECTED
EVIDENCE OF RELICS, RECORDS,
HISTORY, AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
FROM GREECE, ETRURIA, EGYPT, CHINA, THROUGH ASSYRIA
AND BABYLONIA, TO THE PRIMITIVE
HOME, THE LAND OF AKKAD
AND SUMER.
BY
Hermann Smith.
Author of “The Making of Sound in the Organ,” “Instruments of the
Orchestra from Old to New,” “Modern Organ Tuning,” etc.
Sixty-five Illustrations.
London:
WILLIAM REEVES, 83, CHARING CROSS ROAD, W.C.
Preparing for Publication.
THE
MAKING OF SOUND IN THE ORGAN.
An Analysis of the work of the Air in the Speaking Organ Pipe of
the various constant types, with an Exposition of the Laws of
Time-distance and of the Tone of the Air, etc., etc.,
THE THEORY OF THE AIR-REED ELUCIDATED.
Also
INSTRUMENTS OF THE ORCHESTRA,
THEIR ORIGIN, HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT
AND COMPARATIVE ACOUSTICS, etc.
