Category: History - Other
Music, in however primitive a stage of development it may be with some nations, is universally appreciated as one of the Fine Arts. The origin of vocal music may have been coeval with that of language; and the construction of musical instruments evidently dates with the earlie...
Music, in however primitive a stage of development it may be with some nations, is universally appreciated as one of the Fine Arts. The origin of vocal music may have been coeva...
2. CHAPTER II.A really complete account of all the musical instruments from the earliest time known to us would require much more space than can here be afforded. We can attempt only a concis...
3. CHAPTER III.Our acquaintance with the Assyrian instruments has been derived almost entirely from the famous bas-reliefs which have been excavated from the mounds of Nimroud, Khorsabad, and...
4. CHAPTER IV.Many musical instruments of the ancient Greeks are known to us by name; but respecting their exact construction and capabilities there still prevails almost as much diversity of...
5. CHAPTER V.Allowing for any exaggeration as to chronology, natural to the lively imagination of Asiatics, there is no reason to doubt that the Chinese possessed long before our Christian e...
6. CHAPTER VI.If the preserved antiquities of the American Indians, dating from a period anterior to our discovery of the western hemisphere, possess an extraordinary interest because they af...
7. CHAPTER VII.Many representations of musical instruments of the middle ages have been preserved in manuscripts, as well as in sculptures and paintings forming ornamental portions of churches...
8. CHAPTER VIII.The construction of the _organistrum_ requires but little explanation. A glance at the finger-board reveals at once that the different tones were obtained by raising the keys pl...
9. CHAPTER IX.Respecting the orchestras, or musical bands, represented on monuments of the middle ages, there can hardly be a doubt that the artists who sculptured them were not unfrequently...
10. CHAPTER X.Among the best known of these was the _virginal_, of which we give an engraving from a specimen of the time of Elizabeth at South Kensington. Another was the _lute_, which about...