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| APOLLO WITH HIS LYRE. | (described page 323. |
| From a marble relief by Praxiteles in the Museum at Athens. | |
“The eye is blind when the mind does not see.”—Arab Proverb.
THE
World’s Earliest Music:
TRACED TO ITS BEGINNINGS
IN ANCIENT LANDS,
BY COLLECTED
EVIDENCE OF RELICS, RECORDS,
HISTORY, AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
FROM GREECE, ETRURIA, EGYPT, CHINA, THROUGH ASSYRIA
AND BABYLONIA, TO THE PRIMITIVE
HOME, THE LAND OF AKKAD
AND SUMER.
BY
Hermann Smith.
Author of “The Making of Sound in the Organ,” “Instruments of the
Orchestra from Old to New,” “Modern Organ Tuning,” etc.
Sixty-five Illustrations.
London:
WILLIAM REEVES, 83, CHARING CROSS ROAD, W.C.
Preparing for Publication.
THE
MAKING OF SOUND IN THE ORGAN.
An Analysis of the work of the Air in the Speaking Organ Pipe of
the various constant types, with an Exposition of the Laws of
Time-distance and of the Tone of the Air, etc., etc.,
THE THEORY OF THE AIR-REED ELUCIDATED.
Also
INSTRUMENTS OF THE ORCHESTRA,
THEIR ORIGIN, HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT
AND COMPARATIVE ACOUSTICS, etc.
FOREWORD.
A music-trail through many lands, over regionswhere dwelt the peoples of the earliest civilizations,this I have followed, attracted oftentimes to ramblesby the way, gathering evidence on all sides in thecourse of my journey, picking up whatever seemed tobe capable of thr