Curiosities of Music: A Collection of Facts not generally known, regarding the Music of Ancient and Savage Nations
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Chapters (46)
- Curiosities of Music
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.
- THE HINDOOS.
- CHAPTER II. ANCIENT EGYPTIAN.
- CHAPTER III. BIBLICAL AND HEBREW.
- CHAPTER IV. ANCIENT GREEK MUSIC.
- CHAPTER V. THE PUBLIC GAMES OF GREECE.
- CHAPTER VI. THE PHILOSOPHERS, AND GREEK SOCIAL MUSIC.
- CHAPTER VII. GREEK THEATRE AND CHORUS.
- CHAPTER VII. THE DANCES OF ANCIENT GREECE.
- CHAPTER VIII. ANCIENT ROMAN MUSIC.
- CHAPTER IX. MUSIC OF THE ROMAN THEATRE.
- CHAPTER X. MUSIC OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
- CHAPTER XI. HISTORY OF CHINESE MUSIC.[87]
- CHAPTER XII. CHINESE MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
- OF THE SOUND OF STONE.
- OF THE SOUND OF METAL.
- OF THE SOUND OF BAKED CLAY.
- OF THE SOUND OF SILK.
- THE SOUND OF WOOD.
- THE SOUND OF BAMBOO.
- THE SOUND OF CALABASH.
- MISCELLANEOUS INSTRUMENTS.
- THE SOUND OF THE VOICE.
- CHAPTER XIII. CHINESE MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS AND CEREMONIES.
- Hymn to the Ancestors.[119]
- CHAPTER XVI. THE CHINESE THEATRE AND DANCES.
- CHAPTER XVII. MUSIC OF JAPAN.
- CHAPTER XVIII. MUSIC OF SAVAGE NATIONS.
- CHAPTER XIX. AFRICAN MUSIC.
- PRAISE OF DINGAN. A VERY CELEBRATED CHIEF.
- CHAPTER XX MUSIC OF THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
- GREEK CHURCH.
- SYRIAN CHURCH.
- THE ARMENIAN CHURCH.
- THE CHURCHES OF AFRICA.
- GENERAL SYNOPSIS OF EARLY CHRISTIAN MUSIC.
- CHAPTER XXI. THE AMBROSIAN AND GREGORIAN CHANT.
- CHAPTER XXII. MUSIC IN EUROPE FROM THE FIFTH CENTURY.
- CHAPTER XXIII. THE ANCIENT BARDS.
- CHAPTER XXIV. THE TROUBADOURS AND MINNE-SINGERS.
- CHAPTER XXV. CURIOSITIES OF THE OPERA. MODERN COMPOSERS, AND CONCLUSION.
- FOOTNOTES
- INDEX.
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