| Plates. | ||
| Apollo with his Lyre, by Praxiteles | [Frontispiece.] | |
Cane Harp from Borneo, with Tambourine Bells | Facing page [304.] | |
| Figure. | Page. | |
| 1 | Queen Hatasu’s Three Stringed Egyptian Lyre | [13] |
| 2 | Ancient Greek Players on Flute, and Pan’s Pipes | [16] |
| 3 | Ancient Peruvian Stone Syrinx | [17] |
| 4 | Peruvian Pan’s Pipes, Double Set from a Tomb in Arica | 18 |
| 5 | Pair of Gingroi Flutes found in Lady Maket’s Tomb | [31] |
| 6 | The Egyptian Arghool Reed, Full Size | [35] |
| 7 | The Hautboy Reed, Full Size | [35] |
| 8 | Egyptian Player on the Double Pipes | [44] |
| 9 | Egyptian Player upon Unequal Pipes | [45] |
| 10 | Egyptian Musical Entertainment, from a Tomb-paintingin the British Museum | [46] |
| 11 | The Arghool Reed Pipe with its Drone | [56] |
| 12 | The Egyptian Zummarah | [57] |
| 13 | Player on the Egyptian Seba or Sabi | [58] |
| 14 | Arab Player on the Nay Flute | [59] |
| 15 | Etruscan Player on the Pipes, with Phorbia | [70] |
| 16 | The Satyr Handling the Auloi or Greek Reed Flutes | [74] |
| 17 | The Muse Euterpe Preparing her Flutes | [77] |
| 18 | xivThe Muse Meledosa with her Flutes Complete | [79] |
| 19 | The Greek Mon-Aulos, set in Two Modes | [89] |
| 20 | The Greek Silkworm Flutes | [96] |
| 21 | The Flageolet Proper | [98] |
| 22 | The Pompeian Flutes in the Naples Museum | [111] |
| 23 | The Bulb-head found by M. Maspero | [125] |
| 24 | Midas, the Flute Player, Statue in the British Museum | [134] |
| 25 | The Bronze-ringed Flutes in the British Museum | [135] |
| 26 | The Chinese P’ai-hsiao or Pan’s Pipes | [157] |
| 27 | The Chinese Te-ching or Stone Chime | [161] |
| 28 | The Chinese Sheng or Bird’s Nest | [182] |
| 29 | A Pipe of the Sheng, Full Size | [184] |
| 30 | Diagram of the Plan of the Sheng | [202] |
| 31 | The Siamese Phan with Free Reeds | [210] |
| 32 | Japanese Pitch Pipes, Full Size | [213] |
| 33 | Clarionet of the Japanese, the Hichi-riki | [222] |
| 34 | The Chinese Large Bell, the Po-chung | [234] |
| 35 | The Chinese Gong Chimes or Yung-lo | [235] |
| 36 | The Chinese Dragon Flute | [239] |
| 37 | The Chinese Flute, the Hwang-chong-tche | [241] |
| 38 | Native Chinese Flute Player | [243] |
| 39 | The Krena, a Flute of the Indian Quechas | [245] |
| 40 | The Chinese Violin | [251] |
| 41 | The Ch’in or Scholars Lute, the Favourite of Confucius | [255] |
| 42 | Assyrian Harp with Plectrum | [262] |
| 43 | The Chinese Hwangteih or Trumpet | [268] |
| 44 | The Chinese Haot’ung or Trumpet | [268] |
| 45 | The Chinese La-pa or Trumpet | [271] |
| 46 | The Chinese Yu or Rattling Tiger | [272] |
| 47 | Egyptian Five-stringed Lyre, from Beni-Hassan | [288] |
| 48 | Egyptian Player on the Upright Lyre | [289] |
| 49 | Grand Harp from the Tomb of Rameses III. | [290] |
| 50 | Triangular Egyptian Harp, in the Louvre, Paris | [292] |
| 51 | xvLyre Carried by the Stranger in Egypt | [293] |
| 52 | The Kissar or Harp of the Nile | [294] |
| 53 | Harp Players at Nimroud, from the British Museum | [290] |
| 54 | Egyptian Magadis Player with Plectrum | [297] |
| 55 | Small Upright Egyptian Lyre | [297] |
| 56 | Egyptian Lyre, in the Berlin Museum | [298] |
| 57 | Player on the Egyptian Lute or Nefer | [300] |
| 58 | Dancer with the Nefer | [301] |
| 59 | The Cane Harp from Borneo, with Tamburine Bells | [304] |
| 60 | The Chelys or Greek Tortoiseshell Lyre | [309] |
| 61 | The Muse Terpsichore with a Lyre | [315] |
| 62 | Greek Players Tuning the Lyre and Dancing | [316] |
| 63 | The Muse Erato Playing the Psaltery | [317] |
| 64 | The Muse Erato Playing on a Trigon, from a Vase in theMunich Collection | [321] |
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx“The true nature of a thing is whatsoever it becomes when the process of its development is complete.”
Aristotle.
THE WORLD’S EARLIEST MUSIC.
CHAPTER I.
At the Gates of the Past.
THE human interest in the past never dies, its hold upon us increases with the growing years, and every gain that is made to the store of knowledge does but add to the zest with which we search for more; nation vies with nation for the glory of recovering relics of life that are strewn along the path of death.