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
Greek Vases.
Greco-Etruscan, 66, 72
Lekythos for funeral oil, 76
Krater for mixing wine with water, 77, 81
Hydria for drawing water, 78
Amphora for Prize Winners Oil, 78
Kylix, wine cup, 83
Guitar, Chinese, 251
Hall, H. R., oldest Athens, 329
Harp, Evolution of, 285
Harps, Chaldean, 4
Egyptian Assyrian, 262
Abyssinian, 294
Abydos, cross string, 351, 290
Borneo cane, 302
Hathor, The Goddess beautiful, 11
Hautboy, reed, 35
Asiatic, 57
Hellenes or Greeks, 65
Helmholtz on harmonics, 159
scale of Olympos, 201
Ellis’s notes to on scales, 218
on Terpanders, 335
Hemitone of Pythagoras, 336
Hermes, God on the Nile, 309, 312
Statue of, 130
Herodotus, Song of Maneros, 64
Hichi-richi, Japanese Clarinet, 112, 220
Hindoo Cush, 350
Hindoos, frets and bridges, 350
Hipkins, A. J., Scale of Gingroi, 53
Hippocrene water, 325
Homer and Pindar, 127, 349
on the lyre, 308, 311
Trojan War, 329
Hope, Costume of Greeks, 316
Horn, pipe of, 225
Horns, Assyrian, Egyptian, 266
Greek and Roman, 267
Houscheng, Persian King, 8
Hunt, Leigh, on old Nile, 24
Hyagnis, Poet Musician, 330, 335
Hydria, Greek vase, 78
Hymettus, glow of, 325
Hymn to Calliope, 145
to Nemesis, 146
to Confucius, 10, 288
to Hermes, 308
India, carvings of flutes, 9
Ravanastron on violin, 350
Indians, North West Americans, flutes of, 246
in Bolivia, 245
Indus and Ganges rivers, 350
Ion of Chios, his conjunct system, 340
Iranian Mountains, 167, 349, 350
Iscariot, Judas, a musician, 43
Ismenias, his costly flute, 93
Jade, Chinese, 161
Japanese clarionet, 112, 220, 223
flat fourths in their music, 177
fine work, 225, 227
the Sho, 209
its scale, 215, 226
pitch pipes, 212
reed curve of, 225
Koto, 216, 227, 258
Jebb, Prof. on Delphian tablet, 152
Johnston, Sir H., Uganda boat, 286
the Kavibondo Harp, 293
Jubal, pipes of, 4, 209
Kanon or monochord, 347
Keats, John, on a Grecian Urn, 76
on beauty, 81
on cool vintage, 81
treasures hid, 117
teasing thought, 305
Delphic Festival, 324
Apollo, 325
Kin or Scholar’s Lute, 253
cork soundboard of, 255
its softness of sound, 256
Kissar, Abyssinian Harp, 294
Kissirka lyre, 295
Knife Grinders Chinese Trumpet, 271
Koto, Japanese, 227
Krater Greek Vase, 71, 81, 83
Krena, pipe, 245
Krishna, a flute player, 9
Kuênlun Mountains, 172
Kylix, Greek Vase, 83
Lacroix, Decadence of Greek Musical Art, 4
Lamia and her flutes, 73
Lang, Hymn of Hermes, 308
Languages.
Chinese and Akkadian, 169
Lekythos, Satyr and flutes on, 76
Lesbian Lyre, 340
Leslie, Prof., on the Ear, 231
Leyden Museum, Harp at, 291, 299
Lichanos, finger for, 334
Ligature of Japanese Clarionet, 219
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