[103]Amiot, Mus. des Chinois, p. 3. [104]Cibot, Essai sur les Caracteres Chinois. [105]Amiot, de la Mus. de Chin., p. 35. [106]Figures 2 and 3, pl. 1, Amiot, des Chin. [107]Figures 4 and 6, pl. 2, Amiot. [108]Figure 7, pl. 2, Amiot. [109]Amiot, Essai sur les pierres sonores. [110]L’Abbé Roussier, Annotations sur Amiot. [111]The chronicle says “it was mute forever,” but this was meant as hyperbole. [112]De la Mus. des Chin., p. 60. [113]There are two kinds of _siao_, the great and the small. The latter has the same number of tubes, but pitched an octave higher. [114]Fetis, Hist. Gen de la Mus. VI. 1, p. 66-67. [115]Fetis, p. 73. [116]“Les Chinois ont remplacé les voix des femmes par celles des casrats. Les chirurgiens Chinois sont arriveés a pratiquer l’operation avec une addresse singuliere et presque sans souffrance pour le sujet.” La Fage, Mus. des Chin., p. 150. [117]La Fage, Mus. des Chin., p. 241. [118]Amiot, Mus. des Chinois, p. 179. [119]In singing this the chorus speaks in the name of the emperor. [120]Amiot, des Chin., p. 180. [121]The offerings are viands, libations, and perfumes, the latter being burnt as incense by the emperor. [122]Copied by Ambros, in Gesch d mus. v. 1, p. 34-5. [123]Quoted by Fetis, Hist. Gen. de la Mus. v. 1, p. 62. [124]Amiot, p. 171. [125]La Fage, des Chinois, p. 269. [126]First it was Haydn, then Handel, then Mozart, then Beethoven and to-day Wagner (a few years ago, Schumann) whose bold eagle-flights dismayed the more timid owls. [127]“Among the Chinese themselves, society chiefly consists of certain stated forms, and expressions, a calm, equal, cold deportment, hypocritical attentions, and hyperbolical professions.” Barrow’s Life of Macartney, v. 2, p. 414. The curious reader will also find a very full description of Chinese social etiquette, in the “_Description de la Chine_,” by Pere Du Halde, pages 115 to 154, vol. 2. Rules are given for set formalities, even on the slightest occasions, such as, the opening of a conversation when visiting (p. 126), the exit, the rising from table after meals, (138), etc., etc. It is possible, that in the customs of this people, we may see a living reproduction of some traits of the ancient Egyptians [128]Barrow’s life of Macartney, v. 2, p. 231. [129]Ibid, v. 2, p. 217 [130]Desc. de la Chine. T. II. p. 132. In La Fage’s quotation the page is given as 112, probably an oversight, or a later edition. [131]Account of Lord Macartney’s embassy, by Sir George Staunton. [132]Musical Myths and Facts, vol. 2, p. 163. [133]La Fage Mus. des. Chinois T. 1. p. 302 [134]_Leit motiven_ however the Chinese have _not_!! [135]De Guignes, Voyage a Peking v. 2, p. 325. [136]It would however, be as unjust to judge average Chinese plays by this one instance as to judge of the Shakesperian drama by “Titus Andronicus.” [137]Voyage to Cochin China, p. 295.