- 1Epigraph — Foreword
- 2Chapter I — At the Gates of the Past
- 3Chapter II — In the Land of Myth — The Pursuit of the Gods
- 4Chapter III — In the Land of Egypt — The Lady Maket and Her Flutes
- 5Chapter IV — In the Land of Egypt — More Egyptian Flutes: The Evide…
- 6Chapter V — In the Land of Etruria — The Greco-Etruscan Double Flutes
- 7Chapter VI — In the Land of Greece — From Etruria to Athens
- 8Chapter VII — In the Land of Greece — The Silkworm Flutes, or Bomby…
- 9Chapter VIII — In Oscan Land — Italia — Found at Pompeii
- 10Chapter IX — Back to the Land of the Nile — Egypt Reveals the Secret
- 11Chapter X — The Isles of Greece — Midas the Glorious
- 12Chapter XI — Near the City of Charites — The Mystery of the “Slende…
- 13Chapter XII — At the Delphic Temple — The Music Heard by the Greeks
- 14Chapter XIII — In the Land of China — The Outspread Phœnix
- 15Chapter XIV — The Mongols’ New Home — The Mythical Finding of the Lüs
- 16Chapter XV — In the Flowery Kingdom — The Bird’s Nest
- 17Chapter XVI — By the Yellow River — The Evolution of the Sheng
- 18Chapter XVII — In the Land of Siam — The Siamese “Phan”
- 19Chapter XVIII — In the Land of Japan — Japanese Pitch Pipes and the…
- 20Chapter XIX — In Ancient China — Ceremonial Instruments
- 21Chapter XX — In Ancient China — The Flutes of the Chinese
- 22Chapter XXI — In Ancient China — The Favourite of Confucius
- 23Chapter XXII — In Ancient China — The Trumpets of the Chinese
- 24Chapter XXIII — The Music Heard in Far Cathay — The Oldest Written…
- 25Chapter XXIV — Evolution of the Lyre, Harp, and Lute — The Bow With…
- 26Chapter XXV — The Choice of the Greeks — The Delphic Lyre
- 27Chapter XXVI — How the Music Grew — In the Days of a Thousand Years
- 28Chapter XXVII — At Alexandria — The Final Settlement of the Scale
The World’s Earliest Music
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