Excerpt from A Complete Dictionary of Music: To Which Is Prefixed, a Familiar Introduction to the First Principles of That Science All we know at present is, that music after wards arrived at a new epoch in Greece, and that its cultivation in that country was, during several centuries, chiefly confined to vocal performances. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.