Then the American explorers in Babylonia have unearthed a tablet sculptured in relief showing musicians, and one sitting, playing a harp of eleven strings; Mr. St. Chad Boscawen gives the date of this slab _circa_ B.C. 3,000, it was found at Tel-lo, the ancient Sirpurra. Another valuable find, much earlier in date, was a terra-cotta relief depicting a shepherd seated playing his lute, and his dog with a curly tail standing beside him (probably this lute-lover was an earlier Anacreon), the lute so like the Egyptian Nefer, and the attitude in holding the instrument exactly the same; for so remote a time the drawing of the figures is little less than marvellous. This relic was found in the schoolroom attached to the temple library at Nippur, it confirms the conjecture I put forth that the Nefer form was derived from Babylonia—I called it the paddle form. Each year fresh treasures may be unearthed, so energetic are the new explorers, sons of nations, all rivals in archæological work, each emulating the other in adding new riches to the Museums to hold in trust for the world’s coming ages, adding to the known past other more distant millenniums. With so much material accumulating throwing new light upon the subject, I contemplate a sequel to this volume, to be ready, if health aids the fulfilment of my wish, by the coming Christmas, and to be entitled “Our Musical Inheritance.” INDEX. A, the master note in Greek pitch, 335 Aalst, Van, on Migration of the Chinese, 8, 163 Semi-tonal scale, 160 on Gong chimes, 162 Stone chimes, 163 diagram of Lüs, 173-5 Books destroyed, 186 ideas of, 189 Abydos Tombs, Petrie’s discovery of cross-string Harps, 351 Abysinnian Kissar Harp, 294 Adonis, Phœnicean, 33 Afghanistan, carvings of double flutes, 9 Agriculture, of early Chinese, 168 Akkad, the early settlement, 167-172 Akkadean Language, 169 religion, 169 Hymn, 172 tetrachord surmised, 331 Alexander the Great, 350 Alexandrian Library, 10, 342-3, philosophers, 343-4 Alypius, his scales, 149 characters used for notes in Greek music, 334 transposition of his scales by Ptolemy, 146 Amenhotep, 111 Statue of called the Memnon, 322 Amiot, Pere, Chinese Music, 158 reeds of Cheng, 173, 187 misled A. J. Ellis, 201 on flutes, 240 Amphoræ, Vases for oil, 78 Anacreon, his ten stringed lyre, 312, 335 his songs, 349 Ancestor Worship the religion of China, 168-9 orchestra for the rites, 275 Confucian Hymn, Music of, 282 Antigenedes on reed growth, 119-121 Apollo, his invention of the lyre, 14 statue of, 15 oracle of, 130 hymns to, 130 his temples, 130 the Delphic tablets and hymn, 146-150 lyre by Praxiteles, 323-342 tetrachord scheme of his lyre 336, Cretan seal of lyre 350 Arabia the Divine land 11, 161 Archilochus, musician 339 Archytas, his major third 340, contemporary with Plato 342-3