A General History of Music: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Period (1789)

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Dover Publications, 1957 - Music - 1915 pages

Contents

DEDICATION
12
DEFINITIONS
21
Diatonic
40
Of Dramatic Music
133
Of the Effects Attributed to
149
THE HISTORY OF EGYPTIAN MUSIC
166
THE HISTORY OF HEBREW MUSIC
191
THE HISTORY OF GREEK MUSIC
215
286
342
THE HISTORY OF THE MUSIC OF THE ROMANS
366
A LIST AND DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES TO BOOK I
383
REFLECTIONS ON THE CONSTRUCTION AND USE
399
BOOK II
409
Of the Invention of Counterpoint
457
Chapter III
524
Of the Origin of Modern
559

and Heroic Times
254
Of the State of Music in Greece
286
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