Curiosities of Music: A Collection of Facts not generally known, regarding the Music of Ancient and Savage Nations

From the Prerface.Music has been broadly defined by Fetis as "the art of moving the feelings by combinations of sounds;" taken in this broad sense it may be considered as coeval with the human race.Vocal music, in a crude form, is as natural in man, to express feelings, as it is for a cat to purr or a lion to roar; as regards instrumental music, the primitive man might have found in every hollow tree a reverberating drum, and in every conchshell or horn of cattle, the natural beginnings of ...