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[CONVULSIONS RELIEVED BY MUSIC]
[RECOVERY OF THE VOICE BY MUSIC.]
[THE EFFECT OF MUSIC ON A HARE.]
[THE POWER OF MUSIC ON THE ELEPHANT.]
[THE EFFECT OF MUSIC ON A PERSON WHILE ASLEEP.]
[CONTRARY EFFECTS OF ITALIAN AND FRENCH MUSIC ON A GREEK LADY.]
[ANECDOTE OF ZAMPERINI.]
[EFFECTS OF MUSIC ON MICE AND SPIDERS.]
[ANECDOTE OF STRADELLA.]
[A MODERN TIMOTHEUS.]
[TIMOTHEUS THE MELISIAN.]
[THIRTY THOUSAND PERSONS SAVED BY THE WONDERFUL EFFECTS OF MUSIC.]
[PHILIP V. KING OF SPAIN.]
[THE MUSICAL PIGEON.]
[THE MUSICAL DOG.]
[THE EXTRAORDINARY EFFECTS OF MUSIC ON A BULL.]
[THE DYING MAN AND THE PIANO.]
[THE POWER OF MUSIC ON ANIMALS, IN THE WEST OF ENGLAND.]
[TWO INSTANCES OF THE SURPRISING EFFECTS OF MUSIC], AS RELATED IN THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, AT PARIS.
[INTERESTING PARTICULARS OF MONSIEUR MOZART.]
[G. F. HANDEL, ESQ.]
[TARTINI, AN ITALIAN MUSICIAN.]
[MR. HANDEL.]
[FARINELLI AND HIS TAYLOR.]
[MR. ABELL.]
[HANDEL.]
[DR. ARNE.]
[JEREMIAH CLARKE.]
[HANDEL.]
[MR. BROWN.]
[LULLI.]
[MADAME LE MAUPIN.]
[ARCHANGELO CORELLI.]
[HENRY PURCELL, ESQ.]
[THE QUEEN OF SWEDEN.]
[THE ORIGIN OF CHANTING IN CATHEDRALS.]
[ORIGIN OF THE CELEBRATED OX MINUET, BY SIGNOR HAYDN.]
[MUSICAL BATTLE.]
[THE MEDICINAL EFFECTS OF MUSIC.]
[ODE TO MUSIC,]
[THE MUSICAL PRODIGY.]
[MASTER WILLIAM CROTCH, THE MUSICAL PHENOMENON.]
[ACCOUNT OF MADEMOISELLE THERESA PARADIS], OF VIENNA, THE CELEBRATED BLIND PERFORMER ON THE PIANO-FORTE.
[THE LEGEND OF ST. CECILIA.]
[CLINIAS, THE PYTHAGOREAN.]
[THE SPARTAN POET TYRTŒUS.]
[THE RAGE OF THE EMPEROR THEODOSIUS SUBDUED BY MUSIC.]
[THE BISHOP OF ORLEANS RESTORED FROM PRISON BY MUSIC.]
[A WOMAN PREVENTED FROM STARVING HERSELF TO DEATH, BY MUSIC.]
[REMARKABLE EFFECTS OF A SWISS AIR.]
[THE DENMARK MUSICIAN.]
[WONDERFUL POWER OF MUSIC ON MADAME DE LA MARCH.]
[A RHODIAN MUSICIAN’S REPLY TO APOLLONIUS.]
[EXTRAORDINARY EFFECTS OF MUSIC ON SNAKES AND SERPENTS.]
[THE DANCING SNAKES.]
[CURIOUS CONTEST ABOUT THE ERECTION] OF THE CELEBRATED ORGAN IN THE TEMPLE CHURCH, LONDON.
[QUEEN MARY AND MR. PURCELL.]
[THE HIGHLAND CHARGING TUNE.]
[EFFECTS OF FOREIGN MUSIC ON DIFFERENT ANIMALS.]
[EFFECT OF MUSIC ON LIZARDS.]
[MUSICAL ANECDOTE FROM MARVILLE.]
[ACCOUNT OF THE RECITATION OF THE BOATMEN OF VENICE.]
[INDEX.]

THE
POWER OF MUSIC,
&c. &c.

PRINTED BY J. SWAN,
76, FLEET STREET, LONDON.

The Ox Minuet. Page 97.
Published Dec. 1-1813, by J. Harris, corner of S^t. Paul’s Church Yd.]

THE
POWER OF MUSIC.

IN WHICH IS SHOWN,
BY A VARIETY
OF PLEASING AND INSTRUCTIVE
ANECDOTES,
THE EFFECTS IT HAS ON
Man and Animals.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR J. HARRIS,
CORNER OF ST. PAUL’S CHURCH-YARD.
1814.

THE
POWER OF MUSIC,
&c. &c.

Transcriber’s Notes

THEPOWER OF MUSIC.

THE
POWER OF MUSIC.