Critical and Historical Essays / Lectures delivered at Columbia University

by Edward MacDowell

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Contents

1. Preface
2. I. The Origin of Music
3. II. Origin of Song vs. Origin of Instrumental Music
4. III. The Music of the Hebrews and the Hindus
5. IV. The Music of the Egyptians, Assyrians, and Chinese
6. V. The Music of the Chinese ( Continued )
7. VI. The Music of Greece
8. VII. The Music of the Romans—The Early Church
9. VIII. Formation of the Scale—Notation
10. IX. The Systems of Hucbald and Guido D'Arezzo—The Beginning of Counterpoint
11. X. Musical Instruments—Their History and Development
12. XI. Folk Song and Its Relation to Nationalism in Music
13. XII. The Troubadours, Minnesingers and Mastersingers
14. XIII. Early Instrumental Forms
15. XIV. The Merging of the Suite Into the Sonata
16. XV. The Development of Pianoforte Music
17. XVI. The Mystery and Miracle Play
18. XVII. Opera
19. XVIII. Opera (Continued)
20. XIX. On the Lives and Art Principles of Some Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Composers
21. XX. Declamation in Music
22. XXI. Suggestion in Music

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