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A Popular History of the Art of Music

by W. S. B. Mathews

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  1. 1Title page
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Contents
  4. 4Introduction
  5. 5The — Music of the Ancient World — Chapter I — Music Among the Anci…
  6. 6Chapter II — Music Among the Hebrews and Assyrians
  7. 7chapter III — Music Among the Ancient Greeks
  8. 8Fragment of the First Pythic Ode of Pindar
  9. 9Chapter IV — Music in India, China and Japan
  10. 10The — Apprentice Period of Modern Music — Chapter V — The Nature of…
  11. 11chapter VI — The Minstrels of the North
  12. 12Old Welsh Song, in Praise of Love
  13. 13Chapter VII — The Arabs or Saracens
  14. 14Chapter VIII — Origin of the Great French Epics
  15. 15Chapter IX — The Troubadours, Trouvères and Minnesingers
  16. 16Chapter X — The Influence of the Christian Church
  17. 17chapter XI — The Didactic of Music From the Fifth Century to the Fo…
  18. 18Chapter XII — The Rise of Polyphony. Old French and Gallo-Belgic Sc…
  19. 19Chapter XIII — The Schools of the Netherlands
  20. 20The Netherland School. (1425-1625 A.D.)
  21. 21Chapter XIV — Polyphonic Schools of Italy — Palestrina
  22. 22chapter XV — The Changes in Musical Notation
  23. 23Chapter XVI — Musical Instruments. The Violin, Organ, etc.
  24. 24The — Dawn of Modern Music — Chapter XVII — Condition of Music at t…
  25. 25Chapter XVIII — First Century of Italian Opera and Dramatic Song
  26. 26Flute Trio and Scene
  27. 27Chapter XIX — Beginnings of Opera in France and Germany
  28. 28Song — “Roland, Courez aux Armes”
  29. 29Chapter XX — The Progress of Oratorio
  30. 30Chapter XXI — Beginnings of Instrumental Music
  31. 31The — Flowering Time of Modern Music — Chapter XXII — General View…
  32. 32Chapter XXIII — John Sebastian Bach
  33. 33Chapter XXIV — Geo. Frederick Händel
  34. 34Chapter XXV — Emanuel Bach; Haydn; the Sonata
  35. 35Chapter XXVI — Mozart and His Genius
  36. 36Chapter XXVII — Beethoven and His Works
  37. 37Chapter XXVIII — Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven Compared
  38. 38Chapter XXIX — Opera in the Eighteenth Century
  39. 39Chapter XXX — Piano Playing and Virtuosi; the Violin; Tartini and S…
  40. 40The — Period of the Romantic — Chapter XXXI — The Nineteenth Centur…
  41. 41Chapter XXXII — Schubert and the Romantic
  42. 42Chapter XXXIII — The Story of the Pianoforte
  43. 43Chapter XXXIV — German Opera; Weber, Meyerbeer and Wagner
  44. 44Chapter XXXV — Virtuosity in the Nineteenth Century; Paganini; Berl…
  45. 45Chapter XXXVI — Mendelssohn and Schumann
  46. 46Chapter XXXVII — Italian Opera During the Nineteenth Century
  47. 47Chapter XXXVIII — French Operatic Composers of the Nineteenth Century
  48. 48Chapter XXXIX — Later Composers and Performers
  49. 49Transliteration of the Greek Lyrics to the Pythic Ode

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