Excerpt from The National Music of the World: Music From the East, Music From the North, Music From the South, Music From the West The East the Cradle of Civilisation - Carl Engel's Studies - Instrumental before Vocal - Harp and Lyre - National Melody Derived from Dance - The Chant - Primitive Origins of Song - Specimen of a Priest's Song - Chants as Distinguished from Melodies - The Tune Malbrouk Monotony and Coarseness of Oriental Singing - Hindu Music East Indian Music - Chinese Music - Some Examples of Turkish Music - The Hebrews - The Remote Antiquity of their Tunes - The Collections of Aquilar and de Sola - Some Specimens - Indebtedness of Christians to the Hebrews for Melodies - Mendelssohn and Meyerbeer - The Gipsies - Their Tunes and Melodies - Peculiarities the World Over - Use of the Violin - Abbe Liszt's Music of the Bohemians - The Cymbals and their Use - Spain - The Progress of all the Arts Save Music - Dearth of Composers - Morales - The Garcia Family - Rames de Pareja - Salinas, the Blind Musi cian - Some Specimens of Spanish Music - The Stage and Music - The Guitar as a National Instrument - Some Cuban Folk-songs - Dance Music - Castanet - Saraband, Fandango and Bolero - The Traces of Eastern Music in the National Music of 14. 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.