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
17 The Muse Euterpe Preparing her Flutes 77
18 The Muse Meledosa with her Flutes Complete 79
19 The Greek Mon-Aulos, set in Two Modes 89
20 The Greek Silkworm Flutes 96
21 The Flageolet Proper 98
22 The Pompeian Flutes in the Naples Museum 111
23 The Bulb-head found by M. Maspero 125
24 Midas, the Flute Player, Statue in the British Museum 134
25 The Bronze-ringed Flutes in the British Museum 135
26 The Chinese P’ai-hsiao or Pan’s Pipes 157
27 The Chinese Te-ching or Stone Chime 161
28 The Chinese Sheng or Bird’s Nest 182
29 A Pipe of the Sheng, Full Size 184
30 Diagram of the Plan of the Sheng 202
31 The Siamese Phan with Free Reeds 210
32 Japanese Pitch Pipes, Full Size 213
33 Clarionet of the Japanese, the Hichi-riki 222
34 The Chinese Large Bell, the Po-chung 234
35 The Chinese Gong Chimes or Yung-lo 235
36 The Chinese Dragon Flute 239
37 The Chinese Flute, the Hwang-chong-tche 241
38 Native Chinese Flute Player 243
39 The Krena, a Flute of the Indian Quechas 245
40 The Chinese Violin 251
41 The Ch’in or Scholars Lute, the Favourite of Confucius 255
42 Assyrian Harp with Plectrum 262
43 The Chinese Hwangteih or Trumpet 268
44 The Chinese Haot’ung or Trumpet 268
45 The Chinese La-pa or Trumpet 271
46 The Chinese Yu or Rattling Tiger 272
47 Egyptian Five-stringed Lyre, from Beni-Hassan 288
48 Egyptian Player on the Upright Lyre 289
49 Grand Harp from the Tomb of Rameses III. 290
50 Triangular Egyptian Harp, in the Louvre, Paris 292
51 Lyre Carried by the Stranger in Egypt 293
52 The Kissar or Harp of the Nile 294
53 Harp Players at Nimroud, from the British Museum 290
54 Egyptian Magadis Player with Plectrum 297
55 Small Upright Egyptian Lyre 297
56 Egyptian Lyre, in the Berlin Museum 298
57 Player on the Egyptian Lute or Nefer 300
58 Dancer with the Nefer 301
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