The rise of music in the ancient world, East and West / Curt Sachs.

"First edition."

Bibliographical foot-notes.

Music in early society -- Comparative musicology and its methods (phonograph-- transcriptions -- the Cents) -- Melodic styles (Poetry chanted -- Melodies -- Vedda style -- Repetition -- Symmetry -- Contribution of woman -- Descending style -- Distances and intervals -- Tetrachords and pentachords -- Babble melodies of European children) -- Rhythm and instrumental music -- Polyphony -- Western Orient: High civilization and music (Egypt -- Sumer -- Babylonia -- Bible -- Temple in Jerusalem) -- Musical systems in general -- Music in ancient western Orient (Overtones -- Jewish music -- Syrian -- Armenian -- Coptic and Ethiopian church music -- Drones -- Harpers' chords) -- East Asia (China -- Japan) -- The Lu's -- Scales (Chinese -- Japanese -- Malayan -- Pelog -- Munggang -- Salendro -- Siamese -- Cambodian -- Burmese) -- Melody and rhythm (No -- Daemonic -- Chinese opera) -- Notation (Bali -- Neumes -- Guido's hand -- Tablature) -- Polyphony (Heterophony -- Orchestral) -- Orchestras (Gamelan -- Cambodia and Siam -- The Pwe)-- India: Vedic chant -- Scales (Srutis -- Gramas -- Murchanas) -- Ragas (Water and fire magics -- Jatis -- Classification -- Gamakas -- Quivering -- Drones) -- Rhythm and form (Talas -- Drumming -- Alapa and raga) -- Greece and Rome: Notation -- Genera (Diatonic -- chromatic -- enharmonic -- Enharmonion) -- Shades (Aristoxenians -- Ptolemaeans) -- Early modes (Harmonia, the Dorian family -- Phrygian and Lydian) -- Perfect system (Aeolian -- Mixolydian -- Lyre tunings -- Solmization) -- Relics -- Ethos (Mode -- Pitch -- Raga-maqam -- Dynamo-thetic tension -- Harmonia -- Raga?) -- Health and education (Homeopathy -- Allopathy -- PEdagogics) -- Counterpoint? (Accompaniment -- Consonance -- Dissonance) -- Accents and rhythm (Melic -- Metric) -- Form (Dithyramb -- Soloistic -- NOmos) -- Rome -- Greek heritage in the music of Islam: Arabian style -- Maqam -- Form (Taqsim -- Pesrev -- Nuba) -- Europe and the road to major andminor (Medieval tonality -- Landini sixth -- Gregorian chant --- Semitone -- Musica ficta).