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
Nubian funeral wailing, 60
Kissirka lyre, 295
Olympos, his scale, 201, 216, 311, 330
Olympus Mountain, 325
procession of the Gods, 350
Olympus, the Phrygian, disjunct scale, 339
Orestes of Euripides, 151
Organ pipes, 16
measuring of, 179
Orpheus, cithara of, 311
hymn to, 330
Oscan people, 116, 142
Osiris Egyptian God, 23
Ouseley, Sir F. G., ear for pitch of Chinese Bells, 216
Outspread Phœnix, Chinese, 17
Oval holes of ancient pipes, 224
Panopolis, flute from, 122
Pan’s pipes, 16, 164, 201, 237, 246
Parnassus, 325
Parthenon, Friezes, 75
harps on, 298
Temple completed, 342
Pausanias on Greece, 321
on the Memnon, 322
on history, 326
Frazer on, 350
Pelasgians, 67
Persia fire worship, 8
Persian scale from the Greek fourth, 113
mountains, 6, 350
Pentatonic scale origin in the tetrachord, 248
Peruvian Pan’s pipes, 17-18
Stone Syrinx, 18
Petrie, J. Flinders, discovery of flutes, 27
specimen of Zummarah, 57
cross-string harps, 351
Phan, Siamese reeds, 208
Phideas, sculptor, 342
Phœnician Adonis, 33
Phœnix, 164, 201
Phorbia or Capistrum, 70, 140
Phrygian mode, 335
Phrynis, added string, 312
Pindar, Ode to Midas, 126
at Delphi, 109
city of Charites, 138
pipe of brass, 138
and Homer, 349
Pipes, pastoral, 34
primitive, 168
how played, 224, 248
Pitch pipes of Japanese, 214
Plagiaulos Greek pipe, 97, 133
Plato, many stringed lyres, 321
compass of lyres, 342
Pliny on reed growth, 119
on Terpander, 335
Plutarch, on song of Maneros, 64
reciting pipes, 333
Polyphemus, fingers, 19
Polytheistic ideas, 171
Pompeian flutes, 107
Mahillon’s discovery, 110-117
Pompeii, buried city, 107, 320
Praxiteles, Sculptor, his Apollo, 322, 342
Pronomus, his flutes, 73, 92
Proslambanomenos, 340
Ptolemy, Claudius, on minor tone, 91
transposition of Alypius scales, 146
diatonic complete scale, 345
Ptolemy Philadelphus, his Band, 58
Punt, the land of, 11
Pythagoras, on intervals, 7
at the Nile, 33
his added string, 312, 335
songs he loved, 331
his disjunct scale, 339, 340
his fancies, 345
Pythic games, 126, 130, 334
Quechas, Indian pipe of, 245
Queen Hatasu, her Temple, 10-12
ships of, 12
her lyre, 13, 287
Ravanastron, Indian, 350
Red Sea, Canal to, 11
Reed, the arghool, 35, 55
Reed, Hautboy, 35
Reeds and pipes earlier than strings, 23
growth of, 119
Reinach, harmonization of Delphic music, 147
Religion of Akkadians, 169
of Chinese, 168
Rhodians ode to Pindar, 129
Rhomaides, his photo of Apollo, 323
Rivers, Euphrates and Tigris, 170
Cephisis, 128
Rosellini’s Egypt, 300
Rowbotham, J. T., Musical History, 120
Russians, their Bells, 232
Sacadas, the flute player, 130
Sappho, her lyre, 312
songs, 349
Sarasate, Jubilee at Athens, 130
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