The History of Music (Art and Science)
From the Earliest Records to the Fall of the Roman Empire
- Author: Chappell, William
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Contents
- Introduction
- Glossary
- 1. The first firm footing for history
- 2. How modern music is indebted to the Greeks
- 3. The Egyptian Hermes and his three-stringed 'lyre'
- 4. The improved or octave system of the Greeks
- 5. Greek figure of speech
- 6. Greek singing
- 7. Greek harmony
- 8. Three Greek hymns with music
- 9. Basis of the science
- 10. The musical instruments of the ancients
- 11. Instruments of percussion
- 12. Stringed instruments
- 13. Organs.
