Mathews, W.S.B. A Popular History Of The Art Of Music

A Popular History Of The Art Of Music, From The Earliest Times Until The Present, Regan Printing House, Chicago, 1891. PDF file based on a Gutenberg E-text, with 117 illustrations, 263 p., A-4 (original book: 540 p., 15,49 x 23,11 cm).From Amazon: "This is an excellent book to read by those interested in music as a generic concept and those that are curious to know how did we get to what we hear today. Understanding how the ancient dealt with scales, harmony, Intruments and ways to control them to improve the expressiveness of the performance."From Goodreads: "This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it."