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Ancient and Oriental Music

by Egon Wellesz. 540 pgs.

Contributors:

   Egon Wellesz

Publisher:

   Oxford University Press

Place of Publication:

  Oxford  

Publication Year:

  1957

Subjects:

Music--To 500--History And Criticism, Music--Asia--History And Criticism, Music, Greek And Roman--History And Criticism, Music In The Bible, Jews--Music--History And Criticism, Islamic Music--History And Criticism

	CONTENTS
	GENERAL INTRODUCTION	v
	INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME I	xvii
	ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS	xxiii
	I. PRIMITIVE MUSIC. By MARIUS SCHNEIDER
	Comparative Musicology	1
	Melody and Mankind	2
	The Origin of Music	5
	Totemistic Music	8
	Culture and Race	12
	The Formation of Scales	14
	Structure of the Melodic Ambit	17
	Origin of Polyphony	20
	Variation and Types of Melody	23
	Historical Development	28
	Music and Speech	31
	Instrumental 'Language'	32
	The Musical Instruments	33
	Repertory	38
	The Importance of the Musician	40
	Spiritual Culture	41
	Music Examples	61
	II. THE MUSIC OF FAR EASTERN ASIA. 1. CHINA By LAURENCE PICKEN
	Introduction	83
	Prehistory and Ethnology of the Far East	84
	The Place of Music in Chinese Civilization	86
	Chinese Musical Instruments	88
	History of Theory and Notation	93
	History of the Music	101
	Chinese Instrumental Heterophony	124
	The Structure of Chinese Instrumental Music	125
	A Tsyr Melody	125
	Opera	126
	Folk-Song	130
	Buddhist Music	133
	III. THE MUSIC OF FAR EASTERN ASIA. 2. OTHER COUNTRIES. By LAURENCE PICKEN
	Mongolia	135
	Shinjiang (Chinese Turkestan)	136
	Tibet	137
	Korea	142
	Japan	144
	Miau	150
	Luoluo and Minjia	154
	Nagas	155
	Annam	156
	Cambodia	159
	Siam (Thailand)	162
	Burma	164
	Java, Sumatra, and Nias	165
	Bali	170
	Other Islands of the Indian Archipelago	176
	Cultural Interrelations	180
	Glossary of Chinese Characters	190
	IV. THE MUSIC OF INDIA. By ARNOLD BAKE
	Introduction	195
	Cultural and Philosophical Importance	196
	Vedic Music	199
	The Classical System	204
	Classical Instruments	220
	Modern Developments	225
	V. THE MUSIC OF ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA. By HENRY GEORGE FARMER
	Introduction	228
	The Primitive Element in Music	229
	The Music of the Temples	231
	Secular Music	236
	Instruments of Music	239
	The Theory and Practice of Music	246
	Notation	249
	The Heritage	250
	VI. THE MUSIC OF ANCIENT EGYPT. By HENRY GEORGE FARMER
	Introduction	255
	Primitive Musical Survivals	256
	Religious Music	258
	Secular Music	262
	Instruments of Music	266
	The Practice and Theory of Music	274
	The Legacy	279
	VII. MUSIC IN THE BIBLE. By CARL H. KRAELING and LUCETTA MOWRY
	Limitations of Biblical Information	283
	The Nomadic Period	284
	Early Palestinian Period	286
	Monarchic Period	290
	Music in the Temple	291
	The Prophets and Music	293
	Secular Music	294
	Lyrical Metres	294
	Instruments	295
	After the Captivity	296
	Graeco-Roman Period	300
	Services of the Synagogue	301
	Music in the New Testament	303
	The Church outside Palestine	307
	Early Christian Antiphony	311
	Gnostic Hymns	311
	VIII. THE MUSIC OF POST-BIBLICAL JUDAISM. By ERIC WERNER
	Introduction	313
	Continuity of Jewish Tradition	314
	Cantillation of Scripture	316
	Psalm Tones	318
	Autonomous Melody	318
	The Modes of Synagogue Music	320
	The Influence of Poetry on the Development of Synagogue Music	324
	The Music of Italian Jewry	326
	The Music of Central European Jewry	329
	The Music of East European Jewry	331
	Disintegration of Synagogue Music before the Era of Emancipation	332
	IX. ANCIENT GREEK MUSIC. By ISOBEL HENDERSON
	The Musical Tradition in Antiquity	336
	Traditions of Harmonic Science	340
	Grammar and Syntax	344
	The Tonoi	348
	The Notations	358
	The Extant Musical Documents	363
	The History of Greek Music
	(i) Music in Homer's Greece	376
	(ii) The Music of the Early Lyrics	378
	(iii) Aeolian Music	382
	(iv) The Harmoniae of Plato's Republic	384
	(v) The 'Enharmonic' Music	387
	(vi) Aristophanes and Athens	390
	(vii) Plato and the Revolution	395
	(viii) Music after the Revolution	397
	X. ROMAN MUSIC. By the Reverend J. E. SCOTT
	Introduction	404
	Instruments	406
	Social Status of Musicians	410
	Military Music	411
	Music in Everyday Life	413
	Music in the Theatre	414
	Recitals and Virtuosi	416
	Imperial Amateurs	417
	Music Teaching	419
	XI. THE MUSIC OF ISLAM. By HENRY GEORGE FARMER
	Islamic Civilization	421
	The Cultural Background	422
	The Rise of Islamic Music	427
	Secular Music	433
	Religious Music	438
	Instruments of Music	442
	The Practical Art	447
	The Theory of Music	456
	The Influence	464
	BIBLIOGRAPHY	479
	INDEX	505

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