Curiosities of Music

About this eBook

Author

Elson, Louis Charles, 1848-1920

Title

Curiosities of Music: A Collection of Facts not generally known, regarding the Music of Ancient and Savage Nations

Original Publication

United States: Oliver Ditson Company,1880,copyright 1908.

Credits

Turgut Dincer, Stephen Hutcheson, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

ML: Music: Literature of music

Subject

Music -- History and criticism

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 66216

Release Date

September 4, 2021

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Curiosities of Music
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS — CURIOSITIES OF MUSIC.
4. 4.CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. — THE HINDOOS.
5. 5.CHAPTER II. ANCIENT EGYPTIAN.
6. 6.CHAPTER III. BIBLICAL AND HEBREW.
7. 7.CHAPTER IV. ANCIENT GREEK MUSIC.
8. 8.CHAPTER V. THE PUBLIC GAMES OF GREECE.
9. 9.CHAPTER VI. THE PHILOSOPHERS, AND GREEK SOCIAL MUSIC.
10. 10.CHAPTER VII. GREEK THEATRE AND CHORUS.
11. 11.CHAPTER VII. THE DANCES OF ANCIENT GREECE.
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII. ANCIENT ROMAN MUSIC.
13. 13.CHAPTER IX. MUSIC OF THE ROMAN THEATRE.
14. 14.CHAPTER X. MUSIC OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
15. 15.CHAPTER XI. HISTORY OF CHINESE MUSIC. [87]
16. 16.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.
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII. CHINESE MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS AND CEREMONIES. — Hymn to the Ancestors. [119]
18. 18.CHAPTER XVI. THE CHINESE THEATRE AND DANCES.
19. 19.CHAPTER XVII. MUSIC OF JAPAN.
20. 20.CHAPTER XVIII. MUSIC OF SAVAGE NATIONS.
21. 21.CHAPTER XIX. AFRICAN MUSIC. — PRAISE OF DINGAN. A VERY CELEBRATED CHIEF.
22. 22.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.
23. 23.CHAPTER XXI. THE AMBROSIAN AND GREGORIAN CHANT.
24. 24.CHAPTER XXII. MUSIC IN EUROPE FROM THE FIFTH CENTURY.
25. 25.CHAPTER XXIII. THE ANCIENT BARDS.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXIV. THE TROUBADOURS AND MINNE-SINGERS.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXV. CURIOSITIES OF THE OPERA. MODERN COMPOSERS, AND CONCLUSION.
28. 28.FOOTNOTES
29. 29.INDEX.
30. 30.Transcriber’s Notes

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