The World's Earliest Music: Traced to Its Beginnings in Ancient Lands by Collected Evidence of Relics, Records, History, and Musical Instruments from Greece, Etruria, Egypt, China, Through Asyria and Babylonia, to the Primitive Home, the Land of Akkad and SumerSmith, Hermann
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The World's Earliest Music: Traced to Its Beginnings in Ancient Lands by Collected Evidence of Relics, Records, History, and Musical Instruments from Greece, Etruria, Egypt, China, Through Asyria and Babylonia, to the Primitive Home, the Land of Akkad and Sumer
Smith, Hermann
Music -- To 500 -- History and criticism
Chaldea, land of, 6, 8
Songs, 62
Chaldean Race, 170, 350
Sculpture by, 4, 208
Chappell, W., on fragment of Egyptian pipe, 33
on the tongue box, 43
reed growth, 120
Greek hymns, 143-4
harmony in Egyptian music, 302
Cleonidas quoted, 312
no Greek major scale, 348
Charites, City of, 128, 137
China, her past, 3, 4
Chinese Musical Instruments.
Outspread Phœnix, 18, 157, 160
Bird’s Nest or Sheng, 152, 176, 203
Stone Chime, 160, 163
Gong chime, 162, 235
Yellow Bell and Forest, 175
Tetrachord of Bells, 216
Clarionet or Kwant-ze, 219
Monster Bell, 233, 234
Flutes, 236, 237, 244, 246
Dragon flute, 239
Se, 227, 251, 257
Hwang-chong-tche, 241, 243
Guitars, 250, 280
Violin of gourd or cocoanut, 251
Dulcimers, 253
Kin or C’hin, 259, 260, 261
Trumpets, 264, 268
Rattling Tiger, 272
Drums, 272
Chinese Notation, 10
Flat-fourths, 39, 53, 177, 205
Confucian hymn, 151
Ear for pitch, 159
Scale of P’ai-hsiao, 159
Chronology, 170
Foot measures, 172, 177
Measures and Weights, 178, 197
Enormous Encyclopedia, 190
Book of Changes, 191
Yellow Emperors foot, 196
Old Ritual, 228
Bell foundry, 232-233
Coins, 242
Strings, 252
Classics, 276
King Seang Wei, his buried books, 276
Duke Tan Foo ancestral temples, 276
Ritual Music, 277
Sect of the learned, 277
Love songs, 279
Orchestras, 280
Oldest written music, 282
Chord, as a musical term, 332
Chorebus, the poet musician, 335
Citharist players, The charm of, 346
Civilization, Primitive, 168
Origin of, 171
Clarionet, Japanese, 112
Chinese, 219
Cleonidas on seven stringed lyre, 313
His writings, 341
College of Mandarins, 190
Confucius, Hymn to, 151
on music, 190
his favourite instrument the Kin, 255, 259
ancient celebrations, 277
sacrificial hymn to, 282
Corneto Etruscan painting, 60, 67
Cretan Seal of Apollo’s Lyre, 351
Crete, stepping stone to Greece, 328
Crissa, Plains of, 130
Cromornes, their caps, 224
Cyprus, held by Egypt, 328
Danaus, founder of Argos, 65, 327
Dayr-el-Bahari Temple of, 10
De Candole, origin of wheat, 348
Debrett’s peerage Ancestor Worship, 283
Delphi, Temple of, 131
Pindar, his Iron chair at, 132
Pythagorus Sophocles Æschylus and Phideas at, 132
Music Tablets, 143
lyre, 306
Demaratus, Merchant of Corinth, 68
in Terpanders time, 334
Dennis on Etruscan Vases, 71
Diagram of Nations, 5
Diatesseron, The Greek fourth, 332
Diaulos, Greek flutes, 49, 80-85
Didymus, his minor tone, 344
his diatonic scale, 344
Dion, Statue of Hermes, 130
Dionysius on rhythm, 144
Greek hymn by, 146
Diosopolis Parva, Horn from, 225
Dirce, Fountain of, 129
Disjunct or Greater System, 341
Dragon, Chinese, 3
flute, 239
Dulcimer, Chinese, 253
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