[1] In his work “The Power of Sound” Gurney has taken up in detail
Herbert Spencer’s theory of the origin of music.
[2] Stainer, in “Music of the Bible,” inclines to believe that the
Sambuca was a large harp of the kind used in Egypt.
[3] Maspéro, the Egyptologist, says that after the tomb has been
sealed, the family and guests return to the house of the deceased, to a
banquet, after which the “last link which holds the dead to the family
is broken. The sacred harpist plays a prelude, then, standing before
a statue of the deceased, chants the dirge first sung long ago at the
funeral of the Pharaoh Antouf: ‘The world is but perpetual movement and
change.... Not all the lamentations in the world will restore happiness
to the man who is in the sepulchre; make then a good-day and do not be
idle in enjoying thyself.’”
[4] Smith.
[5] This treatise is now attributed to Cleonidas, writing about
120 A. D.
[6] By this is meant that all intervals of the major second, so-called,
are not equally large and cannot be, if a correct division of fourths
and fifths be desired. Didymus made the interval from C to D smaller
than the other seconds of the scale; Ptolemy put the “minor” tone
between D and E, where it is now placed.
[7] Some investigators claim that some of these melodies were part of
the Temple service at Jerusalem, making the specific statement that
the melody used in some liturgical services, and known as the _Tonus
Peregrinus_, is based on a Temple chant.
[8] A fine account of their methods is found in Robert Louis
Stevenson’s novel “Kidnapped.”
[9] Mention of prominent American organists and teachers is made in
Lesson LIX.
[10] See especially Op. 14, No. 2, first movement.
[11] Grove’s Dictionary says 1611.
[12] See Wasielewski: _Die Violine und Ihre Meister_.
[13] This third sound will correspond to the difference of the
vibration numbers of the other two.
[14] 1907.
[15] His mother’s name, Bartholdy, was added to distinguish this branch
from other Mendelssohn families.
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