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At the gates of the past -- In the land of myth: the pursuit of the gods -- In the land of Egypt: the Lady Maket and her flutes -- In the land of Egypt: more Egyptian flutes, the evidences of the scale, the teachings of experiments -- In the land of Etruria: the Greco-Etruscan double flutes, the bulbed or subulo flutes -- In the land of Greece: from Etruria to Athens, the sweet monaulos -- In the land of Greece: the silkworm flutes, or bombyx flutes -- In Oscan land: Italia, found at Pompeii, the Greco-Roman flutes -- Back to the land of the Nile: Egypt reveals the secret -- The isles of Greece: Midas the glorious -- Near the city of Charites: the mystery of the "slender brass" -- At the Delphic temple: the music heard by the Greeks -- In the land of China: the outspread phoenix -- The Mongols new home: the mythical finding of the lüs -- In the flowery kingdom: the bird's nest -- By the yellow river: the evolution of the sheng -- In the land of Siam: the Siamese "phan" -- In the land of Japan: Japanese pitch pipes and the Japanese clarionet and the sho -- In ancient China: ceremonial instruments -- In ancient China: the flutes of the Chinese -- In ancient China: the favourite of Confucius -- In ancient China: the trumpets of the Chinese -- The music heard in far Cathay: the oldest written music -- Evolution of the lyre, harp, and lute: the bow with the boat -- The choice of the Greeks: the Delphic lyre -- How the music grew: in the days of a thousand years -- At Alexandria: the final settlement of the scale. |
