A General History of Music Volume 1

Contents

• Dedication
• Preface
• Dissertation: 1. Of the notation or tablature of ancient music
• 2. Of the three genera, Diatonic, Chromatic, and Enharmonic
• 3. Of the modes
• 4. Of mutations
• 5. Of melopoeia
• 6. Of rhythm
• 7. Of the practice of melopoeia, with examples
• 8. Whether the ancients had counterpoint, or music in parts?
• 9. Of dramatic music
• 10. Of the effects attributed to the music of the ancients
• History: Of Egyptian music
• Of Hebrew music
• Of Greek music
• 1. Of music in Greece during the residence of pagan divinities of the first order upon Earth
• 2. Of the terrestrial, or demi-gods
• 3. Concerning the music of heroes and heroic times
• 4. Of the music of Greece from the time of Homer, till that country was subdued by the romans
• 5. Of ancient musical sects, and theories of sound
• 6. Of the scolia, or songs, of the ancient Greeks
• Of the music of the Romans
• Reflections upon the construction and use of some particular musical instruments of antiquity
• A list and description of the plates
• Index.