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
Satyr playing Double pipes, 74
Sayce, A., on Tel Amarna Tablets, 64
Scales in music by finger measure, 19
Chinese Lüs, 174
early, 188
traditional Greek, 327
Schiller’s procession of the Gods, 350
Schubert Music, 180
Symphony, 256
Seba, Egyptian flute, 58
Sepulchres of Etruria, 65
Shelley, on Egypt, 323
Sheng, Chinese, 9
scale of, 176, 182, 200, 209, 244
compared with Greek scale, 205
evolution of, 192, 203
primitive maker, 193
free reeds, 185, 196
experiments with the pipes, 199
Chinese tetrachord, 200
pipes described, 184
order of, 202
Sho, Japanese reeds, 227
Siamese Phan, 208, 211
Silkworm flutes of bronze, 94, 96
scale of, 105
Simcox, E. J., on early Chinese, 168
worship of spirits, 169
Chinese classics, 277
Solomon, King, his musicians, 304
Song, of the goddess Mama, 62
of Linus, 63
of Miriam, 279
of Sappho, 349
Southgate, T. L., experiment with flutes, 51
Panopolis flute, 122
Bulb from M. Maspero, 124
Spartan lyre, 335
Spirit of Earth and Heaven, 169, 171, 275
Stainer, Dr. J., on Reed Box, 43
Sticks, the true prophets of Sheng, 206
Stradivarius, 94
Subulone flutes, 69
players, 73, 82
Sumerian Race, 167
religion, 170
Sycamore flutes, Greek, 89, 95
Tak-Koto, Japanese, 208
Tarentum in Sicily, 342
Temple of Dayr-el-Bahari, 10
of the God Uras at Urasalem, 65
Terpander, prize lyre, 311, 312, 315, 329
Pythic games at, 334, 345
his scheme for scale, 336, 337, 339
Tetrachord Greek, 34
Egyptian, 39, 329
early, 332
meaning of, 332
conjunct and disjunct, 336
trichord added, 336
laws of, 338
instinct for, 347
Thaletes poet musician, 331
Thamyris poet musician, 331
Thebe, foundress of the Theban Nation, 129
flutes of, 129
Thebes, tomb painting, 46
Theodosius, Emperor, 5
Theophrastus on reed growth, 119
Thibet no evidence, 9
Thotmes, 60, 111
his wars, 327
Timotheus, poet musician, lyre of, 312
strings added, 335, 340
Tokio Musical Institute, 219
Tonic, Greeks had not, 334
Tope at Jumal Garlic, 9, 60
Traditions of the Scale, 327
Trigon, Greek Harp, 321
Trojan War, 329, 331
Trombone, infantile, 137
Trumpets, Assyrian and Egyptian, 264
Chinese, 268, 271
Tuning of lyres, 314
Tyrtæus, poet musician, 339
Uganda Boat, 286
Kavibondo Harp, 293
Violins, Chinese, 251
Indian Ravanastron, 350
Wagener, Dr., Chinese weights and measures, 178, 197
Wagner, Procession of the Gods, 229
Wailing flutes or Gingroi, 28
Weber, law of Free Reeds, 140
Wheat, De Candole upon its origin, 348
not in pre-dynastic Egypt, 349
Wilkinson, Sir J. G., Egypt, 290, 293
Williams, Abdy, Euripides Chorus, 151
Yellow Bell, Chinese, 175
Yellow Emperor, 172, 197
Yellow River, 166, 168
Zagros Mountains, 350
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