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By William Chappell
This 1874 account of the tune of old Greece, Egypt and Rome was once the one quantity of the author's proposed heritage of tune to be released. William Chappell, eldest son of the founding father of Chappell's the tune publishers, used to be famous for his curiosity in old and standard song and used to be the founding father of the Musical Antiquarian Society in 1840. most sensible remembered for his renowned tune of the Olden Time, Chappell justifies the necessity for his examine of historic tune in a protracted creation to the quantity which criticises the techniques of Charles Burney and Sir John Hawkins and assaults the validity of Helmholtz's paintings on acoustics. The paintings explores idea, perform, technological know-how, philosophy and the tools of the time via research of historic assets comparable to Aristotle, Pythagoras, Boethius and Vetruvius and of iconographical fabrics. A entire glossary-cum-index is incorporated including subject summaries for every bankruptcy.
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Ambrose, 398*. Its meaning is " according to the use of Milan," 398*. Ametabole, without mutation, or change, of mode or scale, 104. AMOSIS, first Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty. Lyres of 17 strings before the birth of Moses, 49°. AMPHION (Fame of), due to recitations, which were included in the general word, music, 32, 49. ANACREON had a Lydian Magadis, 14, 255. A Lesbian lyre, or Barbltos, 296. A Lydian Pektis, 301. Real music first to lyric poetry, but not to epic, 385*. ANCIENT MUSIC all simple and intelligible, ii.
Notes of a hymn in the Hypo-Lydian mode, 161. His scales transposed a Fourth lower by Claudius Ptolemy, 168, 179. He includes accents among marks of musical notation, 381a. AMASIS, King of Egypt (the Amos of Herodotus), encouraged Greek visitors to Egypt, 47, 76. AMBROSIAN MUSIC, SO called, but later than the date of St. Ambrose, 398*. Its meaning is " according to the use of Milan," 398*. Ametabole, without mutation, or change, of mode or scale, 104. AMOSIS, first Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty. Lyres of 17 strings before the birth of Moses, 49°.
Macfarren, Professor of Harmony at the R. A. M. His criticisms have been of great value, and have often led me into new trains of thought; for he is unquestionably one of the most scientific of eminent musicians in Europe. Still, no one of my more learned friends is to be held responsible for any opinions that I may have expressed. I can only plead endeavours on my part to arrive at truth, and that I had no pre-conceived theory to support, which might have had the effect of warping the judgment.