Auber 489 Gade 498 Sterndale-Bennett 502 Rubinstein 506 CONTENTS. PAGE. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 4 CHRONOLOGICAL CHART OF GREATEST COMPOSERS 11 CHRONOLOGICAL CHART OF ITALIAN COMPOSERS 12 CHRONOLOGICAL CHART OF PRINCIPAL GERMAN COMPOSERS 13 CHRONOLOGICAL CHART OF PIANISTS AND COMPOSERS FOR PIANO 14 INTRODUCTION 15-23 Music defined--general idea of musical progress--conditions of fine art--qualities of satisfactory art-forms--periods in musical history--difference between ancient and modern music. BOOK FIRST--MUSIC OF THE ANCIENT WORLD. CHAPTER I--MUSIC AMONG THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS 27-39 Sources of information--antiquity of their development--instruments--uses of music--their ideas about music and education--"Song of the Harper"--kindergarten. CHAPTER II--MUSIC AMONG THE HEBREWS AND ASSYRIANS 40-47 Music among the Hebrews--Jubal--kinnor--ugabh--musicians in the temple service--psaltery--flute--larger harp--Miriam--liturgy of the temple--musical ideal in Hebrew mind--music among the Assyrians--types of instruments. CHAPTER III--MUSIC AMONG THE ANCIENT GREEKS 48-69 Importance of this development--extent of the time--date of Homeric poems--epoch of AEschylus--extracts from Homer--Hesiod--patriotic applications of music--choral song--festivals--lyric drama--debut of AEschylus, Sophocles and Euripides--nature of the classic drama--orchestic--Socrates--Aristoxenus--problems of Aristotle--Greek theory of music--Pythagoras and ratios of simple consonances--devotional use of music--Greek scales--Claudius Ptolemy--Didymus--the lyre and cithara--magadis--flute--aesthetic importance--Plato on the noble harmonies--loyalty to the true--Greek musical alphabet--notation--Ode from Pindar. CHAPTER IV--MUSIC IN INDIA, CHINA AND JAPAN 70-77 Early beginning--use of the bow--national instruments--the vina--theory--ravanastron--music exclusively melodic--saying of the Emperor Tschun--the ke--Japanese ko-ko. BOOK SECOND--APPRENTICE PERIOD OF MODERN MUSIC CHAPTER V--THE TRANSFORMATION AND ITS CAUSES 81-86 General view of the transformation to modern music--causes co-operating--difference between ancient and modern music--harmony and tonality--consonance and dissonance--three steps in the development of harmonic perceptions--when were these steps taken?--tonality defined--growth of tonal perception--unconscious perception of implied or associated tones. CHAPTER VI--THE MINSTRELS OF THE NORTH 87-108