[Illustration: _From the painting by Manet—in the Louvre, Paris._ _The Fifer._ ] HOW MUSIC GREW FROM PREHISTORIC TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY BY MARION BAUER & ETHEL PEYSER [Illustration: Logo] WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WILLIAM J. HENDERSON _With 64 Illustrations_ G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS NEW YORK :: LONDON Copyright, 1925 by Marion Bauer and Ethel Peyser Tenth Impression All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission. Made in the United States of America TO OUR YOUNG FRIENDS FROM NINE TO NINETY THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY OFFERED “It takes three to make music: one to create, one to perform, one to appreciate. And who can tell which is the most important?” ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER, from _The Creative Listener_ (a revision) in _The Musical Amateur_. THE AUTHORS’ GREETINGS DEAR YOUNG READERS FROM NINE TO NINETY: In writing this book we have not tried to write a history but rather have attempted to follow a lane parallel to the road along which music has marched down to us through the ages. For this reason you will find what may seem upon first glance peculiar omissions, but which to us were prayerfully and carefully relinquished, lest the book become an encyclopedia and lest our kind publisher look upon us ungraciously and our readers despair. Among the omissions which may be regarded as serious is a chapter on the singers, those who have delighted and thrilled the public through the years, but the nature of this book, in the minds of its authors, precludes details of the executive side of music, adhering as closely as possible to the actual creators. In our experience every history of music, and we have read scores of them, leaves out many things, so our “lane” touches things in passing, only, owing to mechanical as well as willful reasons. On the other hand we have enlarged greatly on many topics. This we have done when we have considered a subject particularly picturesque in order to attract and stimulate the novice reading about music, perhaps, for the first time!