A Popular History of the Art of Music

A Popular History of the Art of Music, by W.

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Title: A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
Author: W. S. B. Mathews

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A POPULAR HISTORY OF THE ART OF MUSIC
From the Earliest Times Until the Present.
With Accounts of the Chief Musical Instruments and Scales; the Principles and Artistic Value of Their Music; together with Biographical Notices of the Greater Composers, Chronological Charts, Specimens of Music, and Many Engravings.
by
W. S. B. MATHEWS,
Editor of "Music" Magazine,
Author of "How to Understand Music," "Studies in Phrasing," "Twenty Lessons to a Beginner," "Primer of Musical Forms," Associate Editor of Mason's "Pianoforte Technics," etc., etc.

Chicago: The "Music" Magazine Publishing Co. 1402-5 The Auditorium. Copyright by W. S. B. Mathews, 1891.

TO
DR. FLORENCE ZIEGFELD,
President of the Chicago Musical College
THIS WORK IS
RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.

PREFACE.
I have here endeavored to provide a readable account of the entire history of the art of music, within the compass of a single small volume, and to treat the luxuriant and many-sided later development with the particularity proportionate to its importance, and the greater interest appertaining to it from its proximity to the times of the reader.
The range of the work can be most easily estimated from the Table of Contents (pages 5-10). It will be seen that I have attempted to cover the same extent of history, in treating of which the standard musical histories of Naumann, Ambros, F��tis and others have employed from three times to ten times as much space. In the nature of the case there will be differences of opinion among competent judges concerning my success in this difficult undertaking. Upon this point I can only plead absolute sincerity of purpose, and a certain familiarity with the ground to be covered, due to having treated it in my lectures in the Chicago Musical College for five years, to the extent of about thirty-five lectures yearly. I have made free use of all the standard histories--those of F��tis, Ambros, Naumann, Brendel, Gevaert, Hawkins, Burney, the writings of Dr. Hugo Riemann, Dr. Ritter, Prof. Fillmore, and the dictionaries of Grove and Mendel, as well as many monographs in all the leading modern languages.
I have divided the entire history into books, placing at the beginning of each book a general chapter defining the central idea and salient features of the step in development therein recounted. The student who will attentively peruse these chapters in succession will have in them a fairly complete account of the entire progress.
W. S. B. MATHEWS.
Chicago, May 5, 1891.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE.
Chart of Greatest Composers 11
Chart of Italian Composers 12
Chart of German Composers 13
Pianists and Composers for Piano 14
King David Playing the Three-stringed Crwth 24
Egyptian Representations, 4th Dynasty 28
Bruce's Harpers 30
Harp and Musicians of 20th Dynasty 32
Lyres Found in Tombs 33
Women, Street Musicians 34
Shoulder Harps 35
Kinnor 42
Larger Jewish Harp 43
Assyrian Harps 45
Assyrian Banjo 46
Assyrian Psaltery 47
Greek Lyres 64
Music to Ode of Pindar 69
Hindoo Vina 71
Ravanastron 72
Chinese Ke 74
Japanese Ko-Ko 76
Old Breton Song 88
Old Welsh Song 92
Welsh Song in Praise of Love 94
Harp of Sir Brian Boirohen 97
Facsimile "Sumer is Icumen In" 101
The Same Written out 102
Saxon Harp 104
Saxon Harp 105
Crwth 107
Scotch Pentatonic Melody 108
Arab Rebec 112
Arab Eoud 113
Arab Santir 114
Song by Thibaut, 13th Century 122
Reinmar, the Minnesinger 124
Frauenlob 125
Minstrel Harps 126
Gregorian and Ambrosian Scales 132
Hucbald's Staff 141
Diaphony 141
Diaphony in Fourths 142
Guido of Arezzo 144
Table of the Schools of the Netherlands 162
Orlando di Lassus 167
Music by Palestrina 173 to 175
Roman Letter Notation of Guido 181
Neum? of 10th Century 181
Neum? of 11th Century 182
Neum? with Lines 183
Lament for Charlemagne 184
Early Staff of Five Lines 185
Lute 191
Tuning of the Lute 192
Early Forms of Rebec 195
Angel Playing Rebec, 13th Century 196
Viol da Gamba 197
Barytone 198
Stradivarius Violin 200
Old Organ 202
Portable Organ 204
Bellows Bags at Halberstadt 206
Concert of 7th Century 208
Extract, Peri's "Eurydice" 225
Aria, Monteverde's "Arianna" 230
Aria, Cavalli's "Erismena" 231
Aria, Scarlatti's Cantata 232
Aria, Lulli's "Roland" 240
Heinrich Sch��tz 246
Jean Pieters Swelinck 251
Samuel Scheidt 252
Johann Adam Reinken 254
John Sebastian Bach 266
Geo. Friedrich H?ndel 274
Joseph Haydn 286
The Mozart Family 293
Mozart (Miss Stock) 300
Mozart 302
Beethoven 311
Beethoven