Significance of exotic music--Classification; Aztecs and Peruvians--The Orient: China and Hindustan, the Mohammedans--Exotic instruments--Music as religious rite; music and dancing--Music and customs; Orient and Occident.
III. THE MOST ANCIENT CIVILIZED NATIONS 64
Conjecture and authority--The Assyrians and Babylonians; instruments; scales--The Hebrews--The Egyptians; social aspects; Plato’s testimony; instruments--Egyptian influence on Greek culture and its musical significance.
Significance of Greek music--Greek conception of music; mythical records--Music in social life; folk-song; general characteristics of Greek music--Systems and scales--Pythagoras’ theories; later theorists: Aristoxenus to Ptolemy--Periods of Greek composition; the _nomoi_; lyricism; choral dancing and choral lyricism; the drama--Greek instruments; notation.
Music in the Roman empire--Sources of early Christian music; the hymns of St. Ambrose--Hebrew traditions--Psalmody, responses, antiphons; the liturgy; the Gregorian tradition; the antiphonary and the gradual; sequences and tropes--Ecclesiastical modes; early notation.
The third dimension in music--'Antiphony’ and Polyphony; magadizing; organum and diaphony, parallel and oblique--Guido d’Arezzo and his reputed inventions; solmisation; progress of notation--Johannes Cotto and the _Ad organum faciendum_; contrary motion and the beginning of true polyphony--Measured music; mensural notation--_Faux-bourdon_, _gymel_; forms of mensural composition.
VII. SECULAR MUSIC IN THE MIDDLE AGES 186
Popular music; fusion of secular and ecclesiastical spirit; Paganism and Christianity; the epic--Folksong; early types in France, _complainte_, narrative song, dance song; Germany and the North; occupational songs--Vagrant musicians; jongleurs, minstrels; the love song--Troubadours and Trouvères; Adam de la Halle--The Minnesinger; the Meistersinger; influence on Reformation and Renaissance.
VIII. THE RISE OF THE NETHERLAND SCHOOLS 226
The Netherland style; the _Ars Nova_; Maschault and the Paris school; the papal ban on figured music--The Gallo-Belgian school; early English polyphony; John Dunstable; Dufay and Binchois; other Gallo-Belgians--Okeghem and his school--Josquin des Prés; merits of the Netherland Schools.