INDEX
- A
- Absolute music, 239–40, 242, 397, 422
- Abt, Franz, 423–4
- Adam de la Halle, 102, 112, 125
- Aida, Verdi’s, 379–81
- Albéniz, Isaac, 453–4
- Alcuin, 76
- Alfred the Great, 93
- Alphonso XII of Spain, 453
- Ambrose, St., 71, 72
- America, see United States
- American Academy in Rome, 507–8
- American composers, 475 ff.
- American folk music, 140–5
- American Music Guild, the, 506–7
- American opera companies, 514
- American patrons of music, 512–13
- American song writers, recent, 509–10
- American symphony orchestras, 513–14
- Anglican church, founding of, 188
- Anglin, Margaret, 469
- Antiphony, use of, by the Greeks, 41;
- introduction into church music, 70
- Apollo, 33–4
- Arabia, music of, 55 ff., 209, 210;
- Arcadelt, Jacob, 157
- Armide, Dvorak’s, 447
- Arne, Dr. Thomas, 200, 339
- Assyrian music, 24–5
- Atonality, 517, 529
- Auber, Daniel François Esprit, 333–4
- Aulos of the Greeks, 42–3
- Austrian National Hymn, written by Haydn, 282
- Automatic pianos, 316–19
- Aztecs, music of the, 53–4
- B
- Bach, Johann Christian, 254
- Bach, Johann Christoph, 254
- Bach, Johann Sebastian, 208, 211, 238, 240;
- Bach, Karl Philip Emanuel, 249, 253–4
- Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann, 253
- Bach Festival, yearly, at Bethlehem, Pa., 252, 464
- Bagpipes, the Roman tibia, 45;
- Baif, Jean Antoine, his club of poets and musicians in France, 177
- Balakirev, Mily, 444–5
- Balfe, Michael William, 341
- Ballad, the, and the ballet, 122
- Ballet, the, at the French court in second half of the 16th century, 178
- Band, the difference between, and an orchestra, 234
- Bantock, Granville, 543
- Barber of Seville, Rossini’s, 337
- Bards of ancient Britain, 89–91
- Barnby, Joseph, 340
- Bartlett, Homer W., 490
- Bartok, Béla, 536–7
- Bauer, Marion, 507
- Bax, Arnold, 544
- Bay Psalm Book, the, 458
- Bayreuth, 371–2, 373
- Beach, Mrs. H. H. A., 480–1
- Beaumont and Fletcher, 173
- Bede, the venerable, 75–6, 92
- Beethoven, Ludwig van, 293 ff.;
- account of his life, 295–302;
- his friendships, 298–9;
- The Moonlight Sonata, 300, 304;
- his three periods, and works during, 301–2;
- his opera Fidelio, 302, 305, 306, 326;
- influence upon the growth of music, 303–5;
- as a composer of instrumental music, 305–6;
- his preference in pianos, 313;
- the Kreutzer Sonata, 324;
- influence of, on Wagner, 360;
- and Brahms, 418, 419;
- “the oratorio for Boston,” 462
- Beggar’s Opera, Gay’s, 338
- Belasco, David, 384
- Belgium, modern music in, 541
- Bellini, Vincenzo, 337–8
- Bennett, Sir William Sterndale, 340, 438
- Berg, Alban, 533–4
- Berkshire chamber music competition, 440
- Berlin, Irving, 503
- Berlioz, Hector, 386;
- account of his life and his musical innovations, 398–403
- Berners, Lord, 544–5
- Bethlehem, Pa., yearly Bach Festival at, 252
- Bible, the, mention of music in, 25 ff.
- Bible stories, acting of, 171–3
- Billings, William, 460–2
- Birmingham Festivals, 339–40
- Bispham, David, 469, 495
- Bizet, Georges, 386, 388–9
- Bliss, Arthur, 545
- Bloch, Ernest, 510, 542
- Blondel de Nesle, rescue of Richard the Lion-Hearted by, 99
- Blow, Dr. John, 204–5
- Bohemia, composers of, 446–8
- Bohemian folk songs and dances, 135.
- Bohemian Girl, The, Balfe’s, 341
- Boieldieu, François Adrienne, 333
- Boise, O. B., 495, 496
- Boito, Arrigo, 381–2
- Boleyn, Anne, 188, 189
- Bologna, music festivals at, in the 18th century, 219
- Bond, Carrie Jacobs, 481
- Bori, Lucrezia, 385, 386
- Borodin, Alexander, 444
- Boston Handel and Haydn Society, 462
- Boston Symphony Orchestra, the, founding of, 467
- Bow, origin of stringed instruments from, 307
- Boyle, George F., 496
- Brahms, Johannes, life and work of, 418–23, 424, 426
- Bravura pianists, the, 322
- Brenet, Michel, quoted on development of composition, 146–7
- Brescia, violins made in, 215
- Bridge, Frank, 543
- Bridge, Sir Frederick, Twelve Good Musicians by, 201, 203, 205
- Bristow, George, 466
- Britain, the Druids and bards in ancient, 89–91;
- early invasions of, 92–3
- Brittany, cromlechs and menhirs in, 90;
- folk music in, 115
- Brockway, Howard, 495, 496
- Browning, Robert, 413
- Bruch, Max, 429
- Bruckner, Anton, 426–7
- Bruneau, Alfred, 393
- Buck, Dudley, 476
- Bull, Dr. John, 196, 202
- Bull, Ole, 363, 449, 450, 451
- Bülow, Hans von, 408, 411
- Burleigh, Henry Thacker, colored composer, 501
- Burmese, music of the, 52
- Burns, Robert, and Scotch music, 138–9
- Burton, Frederick, on Indian estimate of classical music, 13
- Busch, Carl, 490
- Busoni, Ferruccio, 535
- Buxtehude, Dietrich, 239–40, 273
- Byrd, William, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 202
- C
- Cadman, Charles Wakefield, 487
- Cædmon, 92, 93
- Cæsar, Julius, 67–8
- Calvé, Emma, 388
- “Camerata,” the, of Florence, and beginnings of opera, 174 ff.
- Canadian folk songs, 139
- Cantata, origin of the, 184
- Carey, Henry, 339, 465
- Carmen, Bizet’s, 388
- Carpenter, John Alden, 498
- Caruso, 334, 382, 384
- Casella, Alfredo, 318, 539
- Castanets, use of, by the Assyrians, 25;
- by the Hindus, 66
- Cavalleria Rusticana, Mascagni’s, 382
- Cavos, Catterino, 442
- Caxton, William, 191
- Cecilia, St., 71
- Chabrier, Alexis Emanuel, 389, 415–16, 433
- Chadwick, George, 476–7
- Chaliapin, 381
- Chamber music, the beginning of, 149, 209–10;
- rise of, 323
- Chanson de Roland, the, 94–5, 127
- Chansons de Geste, 93
- Chant, the, ancestor of hymns, 70;
- Charlemagne, 57, 92, 93, 94, 96, 236
- Charleston, S. C., founding of St. Cecilia Society in, 462
- Charpentier, Gustav, 393–4
- Chausson, Ernest, 393, 433
- Cherubini, Luigi, 331–2, 399, 403, 431
- Chicago Orchestra, the, 468
- Chickering, Jonas, invents complete iron frame for the piano, 314
- Chimes of Normandy, Planquette’s, 336
- Chinese, music of the, 46–9;
- Chopin, Frédéric, 321, 354–7, 448
- Christians, early, 68 ff.
- Christmas carols, 113–14, 139–40
- Church music, 67 ff.;
- antiphony and polyphony in, 70–1;
- St. Cecilia, 71;
- St. Ambrose, 71, 72;
- Greek modes as models, 71–3;
- St. Gregory, 72, 73;
- the Venerable Bede, 75–6;
- early use of instruments in, 76;
- organs in, 85;
- influence of the Renaissance on, 164 ff.;
- Martin Luther and, 165–6;
- action of Council of Trent regarding, 167;
- Palestrina and, 167–70;
- of Monteverde, 183;
- composers of cathedral music in England, 340–1;
- American composers, 475 ff.
- Cibber, Colley, 260, 262
- Civil War songs, 142–3
- Clarke, Rebecca, 440
- Clavecin, the, 210
- Clavichord, the, 309–10
- Clefs, development of, 80
- Clementi, Muzio, 319–20
- Clifton, Chalmers, 507
- Cole, Rosseter Gleason, 490
- Color and sound, study of, in India, 62–3
- Columbus, Christopher, 165
- Concerts, public, the first, 272–3
- Conried, Heinrich, 373
- Constantine, Emperor, 69, 70
- Converse, Frederick, 479
- Cooke, Captain Henry, 204
- Coolidge, Mrs. F. S., 440
- Coq d’Or, Rimsky-Korsakov’s, 445
- Corelli, Arcangelo, 218
- Counterpoint, meaning of the term, 85
- Couperin, François, 231, 232–3
- Couperin family, the, 232
- Cow-boy songs, 142
- Cowen, Sir Frederick Hymen, 439
- Cradle songs, 109–10
- Cramer, John B., 320
- Creation, The, Haydn’s, 281, 282
- Cremona, the violin makers of, 214–17
- Cristofori, Bartolomeo, maker of the first pianoforte, 312
- Cromwell, Oliver, 203
- Crowest, Frederick J., quoted on music in England in the 16th century, 191–2
- Crusades, the, 57, 95–6
- “Cryes of London,” the, 200–1
- Cui, César, 445
- Curtis, Natalie, 485
- Cushion dance, the, 124
- Cymbals, use of, by the Assyrians, 25;
- by the Hindus, 66
- Czecho-Slovakia, composers of, 446–8, 538
- Czerny, Carl, 299, 321
- D
- D’Albert, Eugene, 395
- Dalcroze, Jacques, 541–2
- Damrosch, Dr. Frank, 470
- Damrosch, Dr. Leopold, 468, 469
- Damrosch, Walter, 468, 469, 470
- Dancing, of primitive man, 4, 6;
- Dancing songs and folk dances, 120–6, 134, 135, 144
- Dark Ages, the, 68 ff.
- Daughter of the Regiment, Donizetti’s, 337
- David, King, as a musician, 27–8
- David, Félicien, 386
- Dean Paul, Lady, 439–40, 531
- Debussy, Claude Achille, 394, 416, 519–22
- De Koven, Reginald, 336, 488–9
- Delage, Maurice, 523
- Delamarter, Eric, 498–9
- Délibes, Clement Philibert Léo, 391
- Delius, Frederick, 542
- Denmark, composers of, 451
- Der Freischütz, Weber’s 328, 329, 333
- Dett, R. N., colored composer, 501–2
- Devrient, Wilhelmine Schroeder-, 363, 366
- Dibden, Charles, 339
- Die Fledermaus, Strauss’s, 336
- D’Indy, Vincent, 393, 435–6
- Dinorah, Meyerbeer’s, 335
- Ditson, Oliver, 513
- Dohnányi, Ernest von, 537–8
- Don Giovanni, Mozart’s, 288, 290, 291
- Donizetti, Gaetano, 337
- Drinking songs, 119, 136
- Druids and bards, 89–91
- Drums, the first, 5;
- Dufay, Guillaume, 153
- Dukas, Paul, 417
- Dulcimer, the, use of, by the Assyrians and others, 25, 308
- Duncan, Edmundstoune, Story of Minstrelsy by, 189, 199
- Dunstable, John, 187
- Duparc, Henri, 393
- Duschek, Franz, 319
- Dussek, Johann L., 320
- Dvorak, Antonin, 447–8
- E
- Edwards, Julian, 486
- Egyptians, ancient, the music of, 20–3;
- their musical scale not unlike ours, 23
- Eisteddfod, revival of, in Wales, 91
- Elgar, Edward William, 439
- Elijah, Mendelssohn’s oratorio, 347, 350
- Eliot, President, of Harvard, 475
- Elizabeth, Queen, 192, 194, 196
- Elkus, Albert, 491
- Enesco, Georges, 448
- Engel, Carl, 511
- England, folk music in, 113, 114, 118, 139–40;
- the “round” in, 123;
- the morris dance, 123–4;
- ballads in, in 15th and 16th centuries, 124–5;
- masques in, 173;
- music in, in the 16th and 17th centuries, 187–207;
- founding of Anglican church, 188;
- chained libraries in, 190;
- famous old music collections of, 193, 196–7, 198;
- “chests of viols” in, 198–9;
- “Cryes of London,” 200–1;
- some famous composers, 201 ff.;
- the opera ballad in, 338–41;
- English composers in classical forms, 438–40;
- recent composers, 542–5
- Erard, Sebastian, piano maker, 313, 314
- Erdmann, Edward, 536
- Ernani, Verdi’s, 379
- Eschenbach, Wolfram von, the minnesinger, 103
- Esterhazy, Prince Paul Anton, 279
- Evans, Edwin, 318
- F
- Falla, Manuel de, 540–1
- Farrar, Geraldine, 384, 395, 396, 514
- Farwell, Arthur, 484
- Fauré, Gabriel, 437–8
- Faust, Gounod’s, 387
- Feinberg, Samuel, 531
- Festa, Constanza, 170
- Feudalism, the age of, 95
- Fidelio, Beethoven’s opera, 302, 305, 306, 326
- Field, John, 320, 343–4
- Finland, composers of, 452–3
- Finnish folk songs, 131;
- instruments, 131
- Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, the, 196–7
- Florence, the “Camerata” of, and beginnings of opera, 174 ff.
- Flotow, Friedrich von, 212
- Flute, use of, by American Indians, 12–13;
- Flying Dutchman, The, Wagner’s, 365
- Folk dances, 120–6, 134, 135, 144
- Folk music, 107 ff.;
- classes of, 108;
- songs of childhood, games and cradle songs, 109–11;
- songs for religious ceremonies, holidays and Christmas carols, May songs and spring festivals, 111–14;
- love songs, 114–15;
- patriotic songs, 115–17;
- songs of work and labor and trades, 117–19;
- drinking songs, 119;
- dancing songs and dancing, 120–6;
- funeral songs and songs for mourning, 126;
- narratives, ballads and legends, 126–7;
- national portraits in, 128 ff.;
- Russian folk music, 129–30;
- Finnish songs, 131;
- Poland’s music, 131;
- gypsies, 132–5;
- Bohemian folk song, 135;
- Spanish and Portuguese folk music, 135;
- French folk music, 135–6;
- German folk music, 136–7;
- Irish folk songs, 137;
- Scotch and Welsh tunes, 137–9;
- Canadian folk songs, 139;
- English folk songs, 139–40;
- American folk music, 140–5
- Foote, Arthur, 477–8
- Forsyth, Cecil, History of Music by, 38–9, 236
- Foster, Stephen Collins, 140–1, 472–4
- Fra Diavolo, Auber’s, 333
- France, troubadours, trouvères and jongleurs in, 97 ff.;
- folk music in, 112, 114, 125, 135–6;
- Baif’s club of poets and musicians in, 177;
- ballets at court of, 178;
- the coming of Italian opera to, 178;
- opera in, 15th to 18th centuries, 222–31;
- French composers for clavecin and harpsichord, 17th and 18th centuries, 231–3;
- the French school of opera, 330 ff.;
- modern composers of, 386–95
- Franck, César, 386, 389, 393;
- life and works of, 429–34
- Franco-Flemish school of music, the, 152–5
- Franklin, Benjamin, 463, 464
- Franz, Robert, 424
- Frederick the Great, 249, 253, 255
- Frescobaldi, Girolamo, 237–8
- Froberger, Johann Jacob, 239
- Fry, William H., 466
- Funeral songs, 126
- G
- Gabrieli, 209
- Gade, Niels Wilhelm, 450
- Galileo, 180
- Garcia, Manuel, 338, 465
- Gédalge, André, 392
- George I of England, 258, 259
- German, Edward, 439
- Germany, minnesingers and mastersingers in, 102 ff.;
- Gershwin, George, 503
- Gibbons, Orlando, 196–7, 201–2
- Gilbert, Henry F., 484
- Gilbert, W. S., 336, 341
- Gilchrist, William Wallace, 489
- Gilmore, Patrick, 486
- Giordano, Umberto, 383
- Girl of the Golden West, Puccini’s, 384–5
- Gleason, Frederic Grant, 489
- Gleemen, 92–3
- Glinka, Michael, 442
- Gluck, Christoph Willibald, 213;
- Glyn, Margaret, Evolution of Musical Form by, quoted, 65–6
- Godard, Benjamin, 386–7
- Godowsky, Leopold, 512
- Goethe, 298
- Goldmark, Rubin, 496
- Goldsmith, Oliver, Vicar of Wakefield by, quoted, 463
- Gombert, Nicolas, 155
- Gonzaga, Vicenzo di, Duke of Mantua, patron of Monteverde, 180–3
- Goossens, Eugene, 545
- Götterdämmerung, Die, Wagner’s, 367, 372
- Gottschalk, Louis Moreau, 322, 471–2
- Goudimel, Claude, 157, 160
- Gounod, Charles François, 386, 387
- Gourd, the, as an early musical instrument, 5
- Grainger, Percy Aldridge, 318, 510–11
- Gramophone, the, 319
- Granados, Enrique, 454–5
- Graupner, Gottlieb, 466
- Greeks, the, music of, 31 ff.;
- the nine Muses of, 32;
- myths and legends, 32–3;
- Pan’s pipes, 33;
- Apollo, 33–4;
- Orpheus, 34–5;
- music in their daily life, 35;
- harvest songs, 35–6;
- the liturgies, 36–7;
- festivals, 37;
- scales of, 37–40;
- Pythagoras, 40–2;
- musical instruments of, 42–3;
- modes of, as models for church music, 71–3;
- spring festival of, 111;
- folk music of, 118
- Gregorian chant, 72, 75, 76
- Gregory, Pope, 72, 73
- Grétry, André Ernest Modeste, 330
- Grieg, Edvard Hagerup, 449–50
- Griffes, Charles Tomlinson, 504–5
- Gruenberg, Louis, 502–3
- Grunn, Homer, 488
- Guido, D’Arezzo, additions to music by, 79–83
- Guilmant, Alexandre, 392, 393
- Gutenberg, invention of printing by, 163
- Gypsies, music of, 132–5;
- H
- Haba, Alois, 538–9
- Hadley, Henry K., 496–7
- Halévy, Jacques François, 334
- Hallen, Anders, 452
- Hamilton, Clarence G., Outlines of Music History, by, 155
- Hampton Singers, the, 501
- Handel, George Frederick, 220–1, 244;
- Hansel and Gretel, Humperdinck’s, 395
- Hargrave, Mary, The Earlier French Musicians, by, 230
- Harmati, Sandor, 507
- “Harmonica,” Franklin’s, 463
- Harmony, beginnings of, by Hucbald, 77–9;
- Harp, the, use of, by the ancient Egyptians, 22;
- Harpers and gleemen, 92–3
- Harpsichord, the, 310–11
- Hartmann, J., 451
- Harvard Musical Association, the, 467
- Hastings, battle of, 93, 94
- Haubiel, Charles, 507
- Haydn, Franz Joseph, 213, 253, 254;
- Heart music, of Monteverde, 180 ff.;
- disappearance of, 530
- Hebrew music, 25–30
- Heine, Heinrich, 346
- Heller, Stephen, 358
- Henry IV of France, 176, 222
- Henry VIII of England, 188–9
- Herbert, Victor, 336, 486
- Hereford, England, chained library at, 190
- Hérold, Louis Joseph Ferdinand, 334
- Hertz, Alfred, 373
- Hieroglyphics of the ancient Egyptians, 20, 23
- Higginson, Colonel Henry L., 467
- Hill, Edward Burlingame, 480
- Hindemith, Paul, 535–6
- Hindu, music, 61 ff.;
- Holland, modern music in, 541
- Holst, Gustave, 543–4
- Home, Sweet Home, 465
- Homer, 89
- Honegger, Arthur, 525, 542
- Hook, James, 339
- Hooker, Brian, 479
- Hopkinson, Francis, 463–4
- Horsley, William, 340
- Hucbald, starting of science of harmony by, 77–9
- Huguenots, The, Meyerbeer’s, 335
- Humiston, W. H., 494–5
- Hummel, Johann, 319, 320
- Humperdinck, Engelbert, 395–6
- Humphrey, Pelham, 204, 205
- Hungarian gypsies, music of, 133–5
- Hungary, modern music in, 536–8
- Hurdy-gurdy, or vielle, the, 106
- Huss, Henry Holden, 495
- Hutcheson, Ernest, 495–6
- Hymns, early, 71–3; harmonization of, 166–7
- Hymns, national, 115–117
- I
- Iarecki, Tadeusz, 531
- Ignatius, St., 70
- Il Trovatore, Verdi’s, 378, 379
- Incas, music of the, 53–4
- India, music of, 61 ff.
- Indians, American, the music of, 9 ff.;
- Instruments, musical, the earliest, 5;
- of the American Indians, 11–13;
- of the ancient Egyptians, 22;
- of the Assyrians, 24–5;
- of the Hebrews, 26–9;
- of the Greeks, 42–3;
- of the Romans, 44, 45;
- of the Chinese, 48–9;
- of the Japanese, 50;
- of Siamese, Burmese, and Javanese, 52;
- of the Incas and Aztecs, 53–4;
- of the Arabs, 59–61;
- of the Hindus, 66;
- early use of, in church music, 76;
- Russian stringed instruments, 130;
- of Finland and Poland, 131;
- of the gypsies, 132–3, 134;
- the violin makers of Cremona, 214–17;
- the origin of stringed instruments, 307–8;
- the pianoforte, 307 ff.
- Iolanthe, Sullivan’s, 341
- I Pagliacci, Leoncavallo’s, 382
- Iphigenia in Aulis, Gluck’s, 269
- Iphigenia in Tauris, Gluck’s, 270
- I Puritani, Bellini’s, 337
- Ireland, John, 544
- Irish folk songs, 137
- Italian language, musical terms derived from, 206–7
- Italy, beginnings of the opera in, 173 ff.;
- J
- Janequin, Clement, 154–5, 160
- Japanese music, 50–1
- Javanese, music of the, 52
- Jazz music, rhythm of, borrowed from the negro, 143–4;
- and negro spirituals, 500–1
- Jews, music of the, 25–30
- Joachim, 420
- Jomelli, 213
- Jongleurs, the, 97–9
- Jonson, Ben, 173
- Josephus, cited, on Solomon’s singers and musicians, 28
- Jubal, first musician mentioned in the Bible, 25–6
- Julius III, Pope, 168
- K
- Kalkbrenner, Frederick, 320
- Kangaroo, dance in imitation of, 6
- Kelley, Edgar Stillman, 489
- Kerl, Johann Kaspar, 240
- Keyboard, the, development of, 309
- Kinnor, harp of the Hebrews, 26
- Kithara, Greek musical instrument, 39, 42, 44
- Kjerulf, Halfdan, 449
- Kneisel Quartet, the, 480
- Kobbé, Gustave, 318
- Kodály, Soltan, 536–7
- Korngold, Erich Wolfgang, 534
- Kramer, A. Walter, 506
- Krehbiel, H. E., quoted on folk music, 107–8;
- Kreisler, Fritz, 448, 512
- Kreutzer, Rudolph, 324
- Kreutzer Sonata, Beethoven’s, 324
- Kuhnau, Johann, 241–2
- L
- La Bohème, Puccini’s, 383
- L’Africaine, Meyerbeer’s, 335
- La Juive, Halévy’s, 334
- Lalo, Edouard Victor Antoine, 391
- Landormy, Paul, History of Music, by, 259, 273, 390–1
- Landowska, Wanda, 252, 311
- Lang, Benjamin J., 475
- Lang, Margaret Ruthven, 481
- La Sonnambula, Bellini’s, 337–8
- Lassus, Orlandus, 158–60, 161
- La Traviata, Verdi’s, 379
- Lawes, Henry, 202–3
- Lecocq, 336
- Lehman, Liza, 439
- Lehmann, Lilli, 469
- Leit-motif, first use of, by Wagner, 364, 374;
- Le Jeune, Claude, 177–8
- Le Jongleur de Notre Dame, Massenet’s, 392
- Leonardo da Vinci, 456
- Leoncavallo, Ruggiero, 382
- Leroux, Xavier, 392
- Leschetizky, Theodor, 409
- Libraries, chained, in England, 190
- Lieurance, Thurlow, 487
- Lind, Jenny, 335, 338, 449, 451
- Liszt, Franz, 313, 322;
- Locke, Matthew, 203, 205
- Loeffler, Charles Martin, 482–3
- Lohengrin, Wagner’s, 366, 368, 375.
- Loomis, Harvey Worthington, 485
- Louis XIV of France, 222 ff., 232, 312
- Louise, Charpentier’s, 393–4
- Lucia di Lammermoor, Donizetti’s, 337
- Lucrezia Borgia, Donizetti’s, 337
- Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, 370
- Lullabies, 109–10
- Lully, Jean Baptiste, 223–7, 233
- Lute, the, use of, by the ancient Egyptians, 22;
- Luther, Martin, 163, 165–7
- Lyon, Rev. James, early American hymn book by, 460
- Lyre, the, use of, by the ancient Egyptians, 22;
- M
- MacDowell, Edward, 491–4, 507;
- McTammany, John, and automatic pianos, 316
- Macfarren, Sir George A., 438
- Macfarren, Walter Cecil, 438
- Mackenzie, Sir Arthur C., 438
- Madame Butterfly, Puccini’s, 50, 383–4
- Madrigals, 149 ff.;
- golden age of, in England, 194
- Maeterlinck, Maurice, 394
- Magic Flute, The, Mozart’s, 288, 289, 291, 329
- Mahler, Gustav, 427–8
- Malibran, Mme., 465
- Malipiero, G. Francesco, 539–40
- Man, prehistoric, beginnings of music and musical instruments among, 3–7
- Mannheim School of composers, 273–4
- Manon, Massenet’s, 392
- Manon Lescaut, Puccini’s, 383
- Manuel, Roland, 523
- Manzoni, 381
- Maria Theresa, 267, 299
- Marie Antoinette, 213–14, 269, 271–2
- Marlin, Jane, Reminiscences of Morris Steinert, by, 315–16
- Marriage of Figaro, Rossini’s, 337
- Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess, The Study of Folk Songs, by, 140
- Martini, Padre, 218–19
- Masaniello, Auber’s, 334
- Mascagni, Pietro, 382
- Mason, Daniel Gregory, 403, 471
- Mason, Lowell, 470
- Mason, Dr. William, 470–1
- Masques, in England, 173
- Massenet, Jules, 391–2
- Mastersingers, 104–6
- Matthews, W. S. B., 471
- Mattheson, Johann, 242–3
- Mauduit, Jacques, 177, 178
- Mayer, Charles, 344
- Mazarin, Cardinal, 178, 222
- Mechanical pianos, 316–19
- Medici, Marie de’, 176, 178, 222
- Medicine man, the, among the American Indians, 15–16
- Mefistofele, Boito’s, 381
- Méhul, Etienne Nicholas, 332
- Meistersinger, The, Wagner’s, 369, 370–1, 372, 375
- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 347–51, 353
- Mendelssohn Glee Club of New York, 494
- Messager, André, 392
- Messiah, The, Handel’s, 262
- Metastasio, 213, 265
- Metre, introduction of, into music, 83–4
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, clavichords and harpsichords in, 310
- Metropolitan Opera House, New York, 469
- Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 334–5;
- Miaskovsky, Nicolai, 531
- Mignon, Thomas’s, 386
- Mikado, The, Sullivan’s, 341
- Mildenberg, Albert, 497–8
- Milhaud, Darius, 525
- Milligan, Harold Vincent, quoted on American folk music, 141
- Milton, John, father of the poet, 202
- Milton, John, 173, 202
- Minnesingers, 102–3
- Minstrel, the, 88 ff.
- “Miracle-plays,” 172
- Modes, development of, in church music, 71–3
- Mohammed, 56
- Mohammedans, capture of Constantinople by, 165
- Monochord, invented by Pythagoras, 41
- Montemezzi, 385–6
- Monteverde, Claudio, his innovations in music, and his operatic and other works, 178–86
- Montpensier, Mlle. de, 223–4
- Moonlight Sonata, Beethoven’s, 300, 304
- “Moralities,” 172, 173
- Morley, Thomas, 194, 196, 198, 199
- Morris, Harold, 506
- Morris dance, the, 123–4
- Moscheles, Ignaz, 320–1
- Moses, 26, 27
- Moszkowski, Moritz, 449
- Motet, the, 147–9
- Mourning songs, 126
- Moussorgsky, Modeste, 444
- Mouton, Jean, 155
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, Haydn his teacher and friend, 284–5;
- Muses, the nine, of the Greeks, 32
- Music, the process of change in, 515–19
- Musical instruments, see Instruments, musical
- Musical terms, derived from the Italian language, 206–7
- “Mysteries,” 172
- N
- Napoleon I, 293, 298, 442
- National Federation of Music Clubs, 479
- National hymns, 115–17
- Nature, sounds of, imitated by primitive man, 6;
- personified in gods of the ancient Egyptians, 21
- Naumann, Emil, 281, 285
- Negro, the, and his music, 17–19
- “Negro minstrels,” origin of, 473
- Negroes, American, folk music of, 117, 118, 143–4;
- Neidlinger, William, 490
- Neri, Saint Filippo, founder of oratorio, 171
- Nero, Emperor, 45
- Nero, Boito’s, 381, 382
- Nevin, Arthur, 487
- Nevin, Ethelbert, 488
- New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, 476, 477
- New England group of composers, the, 475 ff.
- New York Philharmonic Society, founding of, 467
- New York Symphony Society, 468
- Netherlands, the, modern music in, 541
- Neumes notation, 72
- Nibelungen Ring, The, Wagner’s, 364, 366 ff.
- Nikisch, Arthur, 412
- Nilsson, Christine, 451
- Nordica, Lillian, 469
- Norma, Bellini’s, 337
- Norris, Homer, 484
- Norsemen, the, 91–2
- Norway, composers of, 449–51
- Notation of music, the Greeks the first to use, 40;
- O
- Oberammergau, Passion Play of, 173
- Oberon, Weber’s, 329
- Oboe, use of, by the Hindus, 66
- Odin, 92
- Offenbach, Jacques, 335–6
- Okeghem, Jan, 153–4
- Old Folks at Home, The, 474
- Oldberg, Arne, 490
- Olympic games, 37
- Opera, the descendant of the masque, 173;
- beginnings of, in Italy, 173 ff.;
- the coming of Italian opera to France, 178;
- operas of Monteverde, 181 ff.;
- first public opera house in Venice, 185;
- Italian opera composers of 17th and 18th centuries, 212–13;
- opera in France, 15th to 18th centuries, 222–31;
- Handel, 255 ff.;
- Gluck, the father of modern opera, 263 ff.;
- Haydn, 275 ff.;
- Mozart, 285 ff.;
- opera makers of France, Germany and Italy, 1741 to Wagner, 326 ff.;
- Weber, 327–9;
- the French school, 330 ff.;
- Cherubini, 331–2;
- Meyerbeer, 334–5;
- Offenbach, 335–6;
- Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, 337–8;
- opera singers of the late 18th and 19th centuries, 338;
- English opera-ballad, 338–41;
- light opera, 341–2;
- Wagner, 359–76;
- Verdi and Meyerbeer to our day, 377 ff.;
- modern Italian opera, 377–86;
- French opera, 386–95;
- German opera composers since Wagner, 395–6;
- early opera in America, 465–6;
- opera companies in America, 514
- Opéra comique, 330
- Oratorio, Saint Filippo Neri the founder of, 171
- Oratorio Society of New York, 468
- Orchestra, size of ancient Egyptian, 22;
- of the Roman theatre, 45;
- of the Hindus, 64–5;
- the Russian balalaika orchestra, 130;
- the Hungarian gypsy orchestra, 134;
- Monteverde’s, 181–2, 185;
- meaning of the word, 234;
- Haydn’s additions and improvements in the, 283;
- rise of, in 19th century, 323;
- the innovations of Berlioz, 401–2;
- orchestras in America, 466–8;
- symphony orchestras in America, 513–14
- Organ school, the 17th century, 157–8
- Organs, early, 85, 235–7
- Orientals, music of the, 46 ff.
- Ornstein, Leo, 508
- Orpheus, 34–5
- Orpheus and Euridice, Gluck’s, 268
- Overtones, 528–9
- Oxford, first chair of music at, 190
- P
- Pachelbel, Johann, 240
- Pacius, Frederick, 453
- Paderewski, Ignace Jan, 322, 449
- Paganini, Nicolo, 324
- Paine, John Knowles, 475–6
- Palestrina, 167–70, 171
- Palmgren, Selim, 453
- Pan and his pipes, 32–3;
- the organ a descendant of Pan’s pipes, 235
- Paris, as meeting place for composers, 330 ff.
- Paris Conservatory of Music, 430–2
- Parker, Horatio, 478–9
- Parry, Sir Charles Hubert Hastings, 438
- Parsifal, Wagner’s, 372–3, 374
- Passion Play of Oberammergau, 173
- Patience, Sullivan’s, 341
- Patriotic songs, 115–17
- Patrons of music in America, 512–13
- Patti, Adelina, 338
- Payne, John Howard, 465
- Peace Jubilees, in Boston, 486
- Pelleas and Milisande, Debussy’s, 394, 416, 520
- Pentatonic scale, 10, 18, 47, 113
- People’s Choral Union, New York, 470
- Pepys, Samuel, 198, 204
- Percy Reliques, the, 106, 127
- Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista, 212–13, 230
- Persian music, 57
- Peter the Great, 441
- Pfitzner, Hans, 424, 535
- Philadelphia, music in Franklin’s, 463, 464
- Pianists, 319 ff.;
- of the late 19th and the 20th centuries, 325
- Pianoforte, the, 307 ff.;
- Piccinni, 269, 270
- Pierné, Gabriel, 392, 393
- Pilgrims and Puritans in America, 458–60
- Pinafore, Sullivan’s, 341
- Pirates of Penzance, Sullivan’s, 341
- Pius IX, Pope, 406
- Pizzetti, Ildebrando, 540
- Plagal scales, 72, 73
- Plain chant, or plain song, 73
- Playford, John, 197
- Pleyel, Ignaz Josef, piano maker, 314
- Pleyel, Marie, 323
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 474
- Poet and Peasant, von Suppé’s, 336
- Poland, composers of, 448–9
- Poland, modern music in, 531–2
- Poldowski (Lady Dean Paul), 439–40, 531
- Poles, folk music of, 113–14, 131;
- instruments of, 131
- Polish dances, 121
- Polyform music, 516 ff.
- Polyphony, introduction into church music, 70–1
- Polytonality, 516, 517, 529
- Ponchielli, Amilcare, 386
- Pope, Alexander, 262
- Porpora, Niccolo, 213–14
- Portuguese folk music, 135
- Powell, John, 499–500
- Pratt, Silas G., 489
- Pratt, Waldo Selden, History of Music by, quoted, 102–3
- Prehistoric man, beginnings of music and musical instruments among, 3–7
- Près, Josquin des, 148, 154–5
- Prescott, Wm. H., Conquest of Peru by, cited, 53
- Printing, invention of, 163–4
- “Program music,” 242, 397
- Prokofiev, Serge, 531
- Prophet, The, Meyerbeer’s, 335
- Protestant Church, founding of the, 165
- Provence, the troubadours poet-composers of, 97
- Prunières, Henry, quoted on Monteverde, 185–6
- Psaltery, the, 28, 29, 308
- Public concerts, the first, 272–3
- Puccini, Giacomo, 383–5
- Purcell, Henry, 200, 204, 205–7
- Puritans and Pilgrims in America, 458–60
- Pythagoras, influence of, in music, 40–2;
- Pythian games, 37
- Q
- Quarter-tones, use of, 538–9
- R
- Rachmaninov, Sergei, 409–10, 446
- Radio, the, 319
- Ragtime music, 143–4
- Rameau, Jean Philippe, 227–31
- Rattle, use of, by American Indians, 11, 12
- Ravel, Maurice, 417, 522–4
- Rebeck, the, 189
- Recitative style, the, 183
- Reformation, the, 165
- Reger, Max, 428–9
- Reinken, Johann Adam, 239
- Remenyi, 420
- Renaissance, the, 163
- Respighi, Ottorino, 540
- Reyer, Ernest, 389
- Rheingold, Das, Wagner’s, 367, 371
- Rhythm, 517–18
- Rice, Thomas, 473
- Richard the Lion-Hearted, 99
- Ries, Ferdinand, 299, 320
- Rigoletto, Verdi’s, 379
- Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai, 444, 445
- Ritter, Alexander, 411, 413
- Robert le Diable, Meyerbeer’s, 335
- Robin Hood, De Koven’s, 336, 488
- Romance languages, the, 96–7
- Romans, music of the, 43–5
- Romantic movement in music, the, 294–5, 320–2, 343 ff.
- Romberg, Andreas, 324
- Rome, the great musical center in the 18th century, 219
- Rome, American Academy in, 507–8
- Ronsard, Pierre de, 160–1, 456
- Rore, Cyprian de, 156
- Roses, War of the, in England, 187
- Rosetta stone, the, 23
- Rossini, Giacchino, 337
- Rounds, 101–2, 123
- Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 269;
- quoted on folk music of Brittany, 136
- Rubinstein, Anton, 322, 408, 443, 446
- Rubinstein, Nikolai, 409, 443, 446
- Russia, folk music in, 114, 129–30;
- S
- Sackbut, the, 189
- Sailors’ songs, 117
- St. Bartholomew’s eve, massacre of, in France, 177
- Saint-Saëns, Charles Camille, 386, 390–1
- Salieri, Antonio, 332
- Salome, Strauss’s, 412, 413, 415
- Salon music, 322
- Salzedo, Carlos, 511
- Samson and Delilah, Saint-Saëns’s, 390
- Sand, George, 357
- Satie, Erik, 524, 525
- Savages, the music of, 8 ff.
- Sax horn, the, 401
- Saxophone, the, 401
- Scales: the pentatonic, 10, 18, 47, 113;
- Scarlatti, Alessandro, 212
- Scarlatti, Domenico, 220–1
- Scheidt, Samuel, 241
- Schein, Johann Heinrich, 241
- Schelling, Ernest, 455, 499
- Scherchen, Hermann, 536
- Schillings, Max, 395
- Schindler, Kurt, 512
- Schirmer, Gustav, 513
- Schmidt, Arthur P., 513
- Schoenberg, Arnold, 532–3
- Schola Cantorum, of Paris, 434, 435
- Schools of music: of the 15th and 16th centuries, 146 ff.;
- Schrecker, Franz, 535
- Schubert, Franz Peter, 344–7
- Schumann, Clara, 321, 420–1, 422
- Schumann, Robert, 351–4, 420–1
- Schütz, Heinrich, 240–1
- Scotch and Welsh folk music, 137–9
- Scott, Cyril, 544
- Scotti, Antonio, 383, 384
- Scriabin, Alexander Nicolai, 446, 526–7
- Scribe, Eugène, 335
- Seasons, The, Haydn’s, 281
- Seidl, Anton, 428, 469
- Shakespeare, 173;
- Shofar, use of, by the Hebrews, 27
- “Shout,” the, negro dance, 144
- Siamese, music of the, 52
- Sibelius, Jan, 452–3
- Siegfried, Wagner’s, 367, 368, 410
- Signatures, time, origin of signs for, 84
- Sinding, Christian, 450
- Singleton, Esther, The Orchestra and Its Instruments, by, 215
- Sistrum, the, use of, by the ancient Egyptians, 22
- Sjögren, Emil, 452
- Skalds, Scandinavian, 91–4
- Skilton, Charles Sanford, 487
- Smart, Henry, 340
- Smetana, Frederick, 446–7
- Smith, David Stanley, 479–80
- Smyth, Dame Ethel, 439
- Société Nationale of Paris, 433–4
- Solomon, King, singers and musicians of, 28
- Sonata form, the, 243
- Sonata, the first, 206, 241, 242
- Song writers, of the late 19th century, 423 ff.
- Song writers, American women, 481
- Song writers, recent, of America, 509–10
- Songs, patriotic, 115–17
- Sonneck, Oscar G., Early Concert-life in America by, quoted, 459–60
- Sousa, John Philip, 487
- Spain, composers of, 453–5
- Spalding, Albert, 505
- Spalding, Walter R., 475, 478
- Spanish dance-songs, 122;
- folk music, 135
- Spinet, the, 210, 311
- Spirituals, songs of the American negro, 144
- Spirituals, negro, versus jazz, 500–1
- Spohr, Louis, 329
- Spohr, Ludwig, 324–5
- Spontini, Gasparo, 332–3
- Stabat Mater, Rossini’s, 337
- Staff, the beginnings of, 77, 79, 80
- Stainer, Sir John, 341, 438
- Stanford, Sir Charles Villiers, 439
- Steinways, the, piano makers, 315
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 389
- Stock, Frederick, 468
- Stoessel, Albert, 468, 506
- Stojowski, Sigismund, 449
- Stonehenge, 90
- Stoughton Musical Society, 462
- Stradella, 212
- Strauss, Johann, 335, 336
- Strauss, Richard, life and work of, 410–15, 424, 534
- Stravinsky, Igor, 318, 446, 527–8, 530–1, 538–9
- Streicher, Nanette, 313
- Stringed instruments, the origin of, 307–8
- Suites, dance tunes grow up into, 210–2
- Sullivan, Sir Arthur, 336, 341–2
- Suppé, Franz von, 336
- Svendsen, Johan Severan, 450
- Sweden, composers of, 452
- Sweelinck, Jan, 157–8, 197, 240
- Switzerland, modern music in, 541–2
- Symphony, first composers of, in Germany, 273–4
- Symphony orchestras in America, 513–14
- Syrinx, or Pan’s pipes, 33
- Szymanowski, Karol, 531
- T
- Tablature, 151
- Tales of Hoffmann, The, Offenbach’s, 336
- Tallis, Thomas, 192, 197
- Tambourine, use of, by the ancient Egyptians, 22;
- Tannhäuser, Wagner’s, 365–6, 370, 401
- Tansman, Alexander, 532
- Tartini, 218
- Tasso, Torquato, 174, 180, 184
- Tausig, Carl, 409, 448
- Taylor, Deems, 506
- Taylor, Samuel Coleridge, 439
- Tchaikovsky, P. I., 409, 443, 446
- Terpander, supposed perfection of tetrachord by, 39–40
- Tetrachords, 38, 39, 44
- Thomas, Arthur Goring, 438–9
- Thomas, Charles Ambroise, 386
- Thomas, Theodore, 467–8, 471
- Thuille, Ludwig, 395
- Tibia, or bagpipe, the Roman, 45
- Timbrel, use of, by the Hebrews, 26
- Time values, introduction of, into music, 83–4
- Tone poets, 397 ff.
- Tone relationship, Pythagoras’ theory of, 41
- Torelli, 218
- Tosca, Puccini’s, 384
- Toscanini, Arturo, 382
- Tourte, François, perfection of violin bow by, 323
- Tremolo, invention of, 184
- Trent, Council of, action of, on church music, 167
- Trinity Church, New York, 464
- Tristan and Isolde, Wagner’s, 369, 370, 372
- Troubadours, the, 97, 99–101
- Trouvères, the, 97, 101–2
- Troyer, Carlos, 485
- Trumpets, use of, in war by the ancient Egyptians, 22;
- Twentieth century music, 515 ff.
- Tyndale, William, 190
- Tyrol, the, making of lutes and viols in, 215
- U
- Unfinished Symphony, Schubert’s, 346
- United States, the, folk music in, 140–5;
- modern music of, 456 ff;
- lack of definite traits in music of, that could be called national, 457;
- Pilgrims and Puritans, 458–60;
- William Billings, 460–2;
- the Stoughton Musical Society, 462;
- the Boston Handel and Haydn Society, 462;
- music in Franklin’s Philadelphia, 463;
- Francis Hopkinson, 463–4;
- early opera, 465–6;
- orchestras, 466–7;
- the New York Philharmonic Society, 467;
- Theodore Thomas, 467–8;
- the Damrosch family, 468–70;
- the Mason family, 470–1;
- Gottschalk, 471–2;
- Stephen Collins Foster, 472–4;
- the New England group of composers, 475 ff.;
- Dudley Buck, 476;
- George Chadwick, 476–7;
- Horatio Parker, 478–9;
- women composers and song writers, 480–1;
- Loeffler, 482–3;
- Victor Herbert, 486;
- Sousa, 487;
- Ethelbert Nevin, 488;
- Reginald de Koven, 488–9;
- MacDowell, 491–4;
- Henry Holden Huss, 495;
- Albert Mildenberg, 497–8;
- John Alden Carpenter, 498;
- Eric Delamater, 498–9;
- John Powell, 499–500;
- negro Spirituals versus Jazz, 500–1;
- Louis Gruenberg, 502–3;
- Irving Berlin, 503;
- George Gershwin, 503;
- Charles Tomlinson Griffes, 504–5;
- the American Music Guild, 506–7;
- the American Academy in Rome, 507–8;
- Leo Ornstein, 508;
- song writers, 509–10;
- foreigners writing in America, 510–12;
- some American patrons of music, 512–13;
- symphony orchestras, 513–4;
- opera companies, 514;
- twentieth century composers in, 545–6
- University of California, open air theatre at, 469
- V
- Valkyrie, Wagner’s, 367, 368, 369, 371, 374, 375
- Van der Stucken, Frank, 490
- Varese, Edgar, 511
- Vaudeville, origin of the word, 119–20
- Venetian school of music, the, 155–7
- Venice, first public opera house in, 185
- Verdi, Giuseppe, account of his life and work, 377–81
- Vielle, or hurdy-gurdy, the, 106
- Vikings, the, 91
- Viola, the, 216–17
- Violin, makers of the, in Cremona, 14–17;
- Violoncello, the, 216
- Viols, of the Arabs, 60
- Viotti, Giovanni Battista, 323
- Virginal, the, 210, 310, 311
- Virginals, in England in the 16th and 17th centuries, 195–6
- Vitali, Giovanni Battista, 218
- Vivaldi, 218
- Volger, Abbé, 327, 328
- W
- Wagner, Wilhelm Richard, account of his life and work, 359–76;
- influence of other musicians upon, 360–1;
- first use of leit-motif by, 364;
- The Flying Dutchman, 365;
- Tannhäuser, 365–6, 370;
- Lohengrin, 366, 368, 375;
- The Nibelungen Ring, 364, 366 ff.;
- Tristan and Isolde and The Meistersinger, 369–71, 372;
- Bayreuth, 371–2, 373;
- Parsifal, 372–3, 374;
- his influence on opera, 374–6;
- influence of, on Verdi, 377, 381;
- followers of his theories in France, 389;
- and Liszt, 405–6, 407, 408
- Wagner, Siegfried, 395
- Wallace, William Vincent, 341
- Walther, Johann, 166
- Washington, George, 464
- Water organs, 309
- Weber, Carl Maria von, 327–9, 333, 334;
- influence of, on Wagner, 360
- Weelkes, Thomas, 200, 201
- Weingartner, Felix, 424
- Wellesz, Egon, 533
- Welsh folk music, 137–8
- Wesley, Samuel, 340
- Whiteman, Paul, 508
- Whithorne, Emerson, 505
- Whiting, Arthur, 482
- Whitman, Walt, 474
- Widor, Charles Marie, 392
- Wieck, Clara, 352–3
- Willaert, foundation of Venetian school of music by, 155–6
- William the Conqueror, 93
- William Tell, Rossini’s, 337
- Williams, Vaughn, 543
- Wolf, Hugo, 424–6
- Wolfe, James, 380
- Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno, 385
- Wolle, Frederick, 464
- Wood, Sir Henry J., 318
- Worde, Wynken de, song book of, 191
- Y
- Young People’s Concerts, New York, 470
- Ysaye, Eugene, 434
- Z
- Zarlino, books on harmony and theory by, 157
- Zither, use of, by the Arabs, 60