Contents
Chapter
I. The Origins of Music.
II. The Egyptians, Assyrians and Babylonians,
Hebrews, Arabians, Indians, Chinese.
III. The Greeks.
IV. Rome and the Dark Ages.
V. Scales and Notes.
VI. The Less Dark Ages.
VII. Dunstable. Dufay. Des Près.
VIII. The Golden Age.
X. Song and Folk-Song.
XI. The Secular Century.
XII. The Eighteenth Century.
XIII. The Viennese Masters.
XIV. The Contemporaries of Beethoven and the Development of Opera in
Germany, Italy, and France.
XV. The Post-Beethoven Period.
XVI. Nationalism. Modern Schools.
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