The incidents in the lives of the musical giants have all been sought out by persons possessing facilities which no American writer can have, and are generally so well known that they can no longer be called curious. We have endeavored to show that music is a very uncertain and fickle art, and continually changing, and that there never can be _absolute_ laws laid down in this free art, as if it were a fixed science. If we have done this and amused our readers at the same time, we consider our work brought to a satisfactory conclusion. THE END. FOOTNOTES [1]Krause.—Geschichte der Musik. [2]The Raagni is the popular mode of singing in India; it is a free Fantasia, or improvisation. [3]Wm. Jones; Music of India. [4]Ambros. [5]Krause. [6]Plutarch, of Isis and Osiris. [7]Herodotus, Hist. [8]Plutarch, of Isis and Osiris. [9]Petronius. [10]Champollion. [11]Lepsius, Abt. 2 Pl., 86e. [12]Wilkinson, p. 240. [13]Wilkinson, v. 2, p. 222. [14]V. 3, p. 83. [15]Abtheilung, 3, page 106. [16]Hist. Gen. de la Mus. [17]Doubts have been expressed concerning the genuineness even of these. [18]Lloyd. [19]Lloyd, Age of Pericles, Vol. II., p. 222. [20]Ambros, Gesch. d. Musik, p. 237. [21]Olympia, p. 106. [22]The nome, or hymn for which Chrysothemis, gained the prize, celebrated the victory of Apollo over the serpent Python. [23]Gevært, Mus. de l’antiquite, p. 45. [24]Chappell, Hist. of Mus., p. 32. [25]Diodorus. [26]Ambros Ges. d musik, p. 265, v. 1. [27]Later there were more characters added, but at first, the whole action consisted of dialogues between a solitary actor and the chorus. [28]Jullien however, thinks Sappho in common with many other ancient poets much overrated. Theses Supplementaires, p. 439. [29]Geschichte der Griech. Lit. [30]Lucian, Lapithæ. [31]Ambros, Gesch. d. musik, v. 1, p. 260. [32]Jullien, Theses Supplementaires, p. 130. [33]The very title “philosopher” was of his own coining, for previous sages called themselves Sophos (wise), but he preferred the better name of Philosopher (lover of wisdom). [34]Some of the pupils of Pythagoras, maintained that he only of all men had heard the harmony of the spheres. [35]The sense of sound differs in different ears. In Chappell’s Histy. of Music, page 251, an account is given of a wire of sixty-four feet in length, arranged by Sir F. A. Gore Ouseley, to sound the C, four octaves below C in the bass clef. The note was inaudible, but when taken at half length some of the listeners heard it, while at quarter length it was audible to all. [36]See Lucian, Auction of Philosophers. Some say two years. [37]Women were also admitted, but probably only to attendance on lectures, not to membership. [38]Legum II. [39]Lloyd, Ages of Pericles, Vol. 2, p. 239. [40]See Lucian, Lapithæ. [41]Ottfried Müller, V. I, p. 343.