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
Ear, Artists habit of reliance on, 333
Edkins, Dr., Akkadian and Chinese languages, 169
Edwards, Miss, at a Nubian funeral, 61
Egypt, Exploration Fund, 225
Egyptian Music unwritten, 304
Egyptian chant of Thotmes IV., 276
player on the Nay, 59
method compared with Chinese, 245
Egyptian Musical Instruments.
Mamms or Twin flutes, 47, 62
Nay, 58
Seba, 58
Lyres, 13, 287-289, 297
Zummarah, 38, 57
Arghool reed flute, 35-36
its reeds, 55, 71
Elam, Land of, 167
Elgin, Lord, Lyre from Athens, 319, 323
Ellis, Dr. A. J., on Persian Scale, 7
the lutist Zalzal, 22
Arabic music, 22
test of Gong Chimes, 162
scale of Kublai Khan, 188
on Amiot, 201
scales of various nations, 201
on Japanese scales, 216-217
Greek scales founded on the fourth, 218
Emerson on the Builder, 181
Emperors Chinese.
Fu-Hsi, 183, 188, 253, 263
Huang Che, the destroyer of books, 186
Hwang-ti, 171, 188, 197, 257
Shun, 188, 276
Yao, 171
Empress, Chinese, Nu-wo, 188
Encyclopedia of the Chinese, 190
Engel, Carl, on the Sheng, 201
Equal Temperament System of, 346
Erato, The Muse her Psaltery, 317
and Trigon, 321
Eratosthenes, writings on music, 344
on flutes with boxing, 78
Erech, city of the dead, 283
Etrurian Kings of Rome, 67
Etruscan double flutes, 60
Subulones, 69
tomb opening of, 66
vases, 68
Euphrates Valley and River, 167, 168, 169-170, 307
Euterpe, the Muse playing her flutes, 77
Evans, A. J., Knossos lyre seal, 351
Experiments with the Sheng pipes, 199
Ezra and Moses, 190
Feng tribes early in China, 163
Filmore, J., on Indian melodies, 247
Finding the Chinese Lüs, 165
Fingers, the fates of music, 21, 33
Flageolet pipe, 98
Flute of Ismenias, 93
Flute player with Phorbia, 70
Flutes.
Diaulos, 49, 75
Subulo, 69
Bombyx, 93, 99, 102-5
Plagiaulos, 97, 104
Cyprian, 115
Egyptian, 11
holed, 122
Pindar’s, 129
Midas, 129, 139
Pompeian, 99, 106, 110
Bronze ringed, 135
Sycamore, 105
Meledosa’s, 79
Wailing, 28, 31
Theban, 129
Pronomus, 73, 92
Fourths, Ancient flat, 30, 53
Free reeds, Midas flutes, 138
Weber’s laws of, 140
Funeral in Nubia, Wailing music at, 61
Galpin, Rev. F. W., his museum, 246
Gardner, E. A., date of Praxiteles, 343
Garibaldi’s welcome, 133
Gaudentius on rhythm, 144
German flute, conical, 219
Gingroi, Lady Maket’s, 4, 28, 33
Glossocomeia, reed box, 43
Gods, Sleeping, 233
procession on Olympus, 350
Goethe, J. W., on May of life, 153
Greco-Etruscan flutes, 69
Greek Church, Music of, 106
Greek Music, Modes their growth, 84
tonal division, 91
notation, letter note, 144, 334
Doric scale, 201
twofold strain of, 330
Greek people, composite race, 65
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