Musical Myths and Facts in Two Volumes—Volume I

About this eBook

Author

Engel, Carl, 1818-1882

Title

Musical Myths and Facts, Volume 1 (of 2)

Credits

Veronika Redfern, Linda Cantoni, Bryan Ness, Richard Linley Jones and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

ML: Music: Literature of music

Subject

Music -- History and criticism

Category

Text

eBook-No.

40383

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40383

Release Date

September 27, 2012

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.MUSICAL MYTHS AND FACTS
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.
4. 4.A MUSICAL LIBRARY.
5. 5.ELSASS-LOTHRINGEN.
6. 6.MUSIC AND ETHNOLOGY.
7. 7.COLLECTIONS OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
8. 8.MUSICAL MYTHS AND FOLK-LORE. — CURIOUS COINCIDENCES. — HINDU TRADITIONS. — CELESTIAL QUARRELS. — AL-FARABI. — TRUSTY FERDINAND. — THE WILD HUNTSMAN. — THE BOLD GERMAN BARON. — PROPHETIC CALLS OF BIRDS. — WHISTLING.
9. 9.THE STUDIES OF OUR GREAT COMPOSERS.
10. 10.SUPERSTITIONS CONCERNING BELLS. — PROTECTIVE BELL-RINGING. — SIGNIFICANT SOUNDS OF BELLS. — BAPTIZED BELLS. — INSCRIPTIONS ON CHURCH BELLS. — THE CHURCH BELLS BANISHING THE MOUNTAIN-DWARFS. — THE EXPULSION OF PAGANISM IN SWEDEN.
11. 11.CURIOSITIES IN MUSICAL LITERATURE.
12. 12.THE ENGLISH INSTRUMENTALISTS.
13. 13.MUSICAL FAIRIES AND THEIR KINSFOLK. — THE FAIRIES OF THE MAORIES. — ADVENTURES IN THE HIGHLANDS. — THE IMPORTUNATE ELVES. — BAD SPIRITS. — THE MUSICIAN AND THE DWARFS. — THE LITTLE FOLKS. — MACRUIMEAN'S BAGPIPE. — THE GYGUR FAMILY. — LINUS, THE KING'S SON. — NECKS. — THE CHRISTIAN NECK. — MAURICE CONNOR. — WATER LILIES. — IGNIS FATUUS. — THE FAIRY MUSIC OF OUR COMPOSERS.
14. 14.SACRED SONGS OF CHRISTIAN SECTS.
15. 15.Footnotes
16. 16.Transcriber's Note

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