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
Ling-lun, his quest, 121
the Chinese lüs, 173, 176, 178
his twelve bells, 232
Linus, Song of, 63, 331
Lucretius on wind and reeds, 153
Lute or Nefer, form of, 289, 299, 351
from Nippur, 352
Lychanos, his added string, 335
Lyres.
Queen Hatasu’s three stringed, 13
at British Museum four stringed, 288
Upright form, 289
boated and cross bar, 289
in Paris Collection, 292
open frame lyre of the Stranger’s, 293, 294, 307
Abyssinian, 294
Magadis, 297
Hermes, 308, 312
Greek Chelys, 309
Act of Tuning, 316
subordinate to Voice, 333
Lesbian, 340
Apollo’s, 14, 318
by Praxiteles, 323, 336, 342, 350
Maclean, Dr., on Greek music, 153
Magadis lyre, 297
Mahaffy, J. P., on Delphic Tablet, 149
Mahillon, C. V., on Pompeian flutes, 99, 110, 112, 114, 116
Siamese scale of Phan, 211
Chinese Dragon flute, 240
Apollo lyre, 318
Maket, the Lady, her Egyptian flutes, 50
Malagasy braiding, 313
Malay pipes, 246
Mamms or Twin flutes, 47
Goddess Mama, 63
Man a measurer, 19
Mandarin’s College at Pekin, 190
Maneros, Song of, 64
Mantinea in Arcadia, 323
Marsyas, the elder, 330
Marsyas contest with Apollo, 323
Maspero, on bulb forming for flutes, 122, 123
flute found with eleven holes, 124
Measures of Organ pipes, 179-197
Medea founded by Mongols, 168
home of early races, 349
Meledosa the Muse, her flutes, 79
Memnon, Singing Statue of, at Thebes, 322
Mercury, scale of lyre, 331
Mese or middle note, Aristotle on, 103
called the Sun, 336
Mesopotamia, 167, 169, 308, 328
Midas the glorious, 126
statue of, 134
flutes, 134
brass reed, 138
Migrations of Chinese, 8
Milton on noise, 230
Minor tone of Didymus, 344
Monaulos, the single flute, 86
specimen in British Museum, 89
Mongolian race, 168
Mongols new home, 165
Monochord of Pythagoras, 103, 105, 347
Murray, A. S., on Tomb treasures, 43
his help, 88
Musæus, poet musician, 330
Museums.
Ashmolean, 41
Athens, 323
Berlin, 48, 299
British, 17, 33, 45, 59, 62, 70, 71, 86, 87, 134, 189, 246, 270,
287, 295, 298, 308, 310, 311
Brussels, 211
India, 59
Leyden, 48, 291, 299
Munich, 320
Naples, 99
Paris, 48, 292
South Kensington, 232, 240, 294
Musical Scale by Measures, 19, 20
by Vibrations, 347
Mycenœan Greece, 329
Napoleon, work on Egypt, 225
Nations, diagram of, 5
Nauman, History of Music, 317
Nay, Egyptian flute, 58
player on, 59
Nefer or lute, 299
player on, 300
dancers with, 301
Shepherd with, 351
Neith, the goddess Egyptian, 327
Nemesis, Hymn to, 146
Neuter Third, 53
Newton, Sir C., flute from Halikarnassos, 97
Nile, Leigh Hunt on, 24
Nineveh, slabs from, 304
Noah, era of, 163
Noise love of, 229
Milton on, 230
Notation, Greek method of, 144, 334
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