LITMIR.BIZ

      Volume 1

       Table of Contents

Table of Contents

       PREFACE.

       A MUSICAL LIBRARY.

       ELSASS-LOTHRINGEN.

       MUSIC AND ETHNOLOGY.

       COLLECTIONS OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.

       MUSICAL MYTHS AND FOLK-LORE.

       CURIOUS COINCIDENCES.

       HINDU TRADITIONS.

       CELESTIAL QUARRELS.

       AL-FARABI.

       TRUSTY FERDINAND.

       THE WILD HUNTSMAN.

       THE BOLD GERMAN BARON.

       PROPHETIC CALLS OF BIRDS.

       WHISTLING.

       THE STUDIES OF OUR GREAT COMPOSERS.

       SUPERSTITIONS CONCERNING BELLS.

       PROTECTIVE BELL-RINGING.

       SIGNIFICANT SOUNDS OF BELLS.

       BAPTIZED BELLS.

       INSCRIPTIONS ON CHURCH BELLS.

       THE CHURCH BELLS BANISHING THE MOUNTAIN-DWARFS.

       THE EXPULSION OF PAGANISM IN SWEDEN.

       CURIOSITIES IN MUSICAL LITERATURE.

       THE ENGLISH INSTRUMENTALISTS.

       MUSICAL FAIRIES AND THEIR KINSFOLK.

       THE FAIRIES OF THE MAORIES.

       ADVENTURES IN THE HIGHLANDS.

       THE IMPORTUNATE ELVES.

       BAD SPIRITS.

       THE MUSICIAN AND THE DWARFS.

       THE LITTLE FOLKS.

       MACRUIMEAN'S BAGPIPE.

       THE GYGUR FAMILY.

       LINUS, THE KING'S SON.

       NECKS.

       THE CHRISTIAN NECK.

       MAURICE CONNOR.

       WATER LILIES.

       IGNIS FATUUS.

       THE FAIRY MUSIC OF OUR COMPOSERS.

       SACRED SONGS OF CHRISTIAN SECTS.

       Footnotes

PREFACE.

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      An idealized portrait of Beethoven, representing him as, in the opinion of many of his admirers, he must have looked in his moments of inspiration, would undoubtedly have made a handsomer frontispiece to this little work, than his figure roughly sketched by an artist who happened to see the composer rambling through the fields in the vicinity of Vienna.

      The faithful sketch from life, however, indicates precisely the chief object of the present contribution to musical literature, which is simply to set forth the truth.

      Whatever may be the short-comings

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