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MUSICAL
MYTHS AND FACTS
BY
CARL ENGEL.
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IN TWO VOLUMES.—VOL. II.
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NOVELLO, EWER AND CO.,
TYPOGRAPHICAL MUSIC AND GENERAL PRINTERS,
1, BERNERS STREET, LONDON.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

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Mattheson on Handel[1]
Diabolic Music[28]
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The Awful Deception[28]Witches[33]
The Indefatigable Fiddler[29]The Changeling[33]
The Effectual Expedient[30]The Vendish Sorcerer[36]
The Old Chorale[31]The Rat-Catcher of Hameln[37]
The Haunted Mansion[31]The Exquisite Organ[39]
The Mode Asbein[32]
Royal Musicians[41]
Composers and Practical Men[56]
Music and Medicine[84]
Popular Stories with Musical Traditions[114]
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The Royal Music-Master [115]The Parson's Advice[132]
The Handsome Minstrel[115]Relics of the Goblins[133]
The Daisy Lady[116]The Golden Harvest[135]
The Invisible Flute-Player[118]Gipsies[137]
The Banished Musician[119]The Nautch-People[139]
The Walriderske[120]The Monk of Afflighem[141]
The Jew in the Thicket[122]The Plague in Goldberg[142]
The Pope's Wife[126]Fictions and Facts[145]
The Two Hunchbacks[128]
Dramatic Music of Uncivilized Races[147]
A Short Survey of the History of Music[171]
Chronology of the History of Music[179]
The Musical Scales in Use at the Present Day[228]