| Contents |
The evolution of the pianoforte / T. L. Southgate -- Our English songs / W. H. Cummings -- The early English viols and their music / H. Watson -- Madrigals, rounds, catches, glees, and part-songs / E. M. Lee -- The recorder, flute, fife, and piccolo / J. Finn -- Music in England in the year 1604 / Sir F. Bridge -- Our dances of bygone days / A. S. Rose -- Masques and early operas / A. H. D. Prendergast -- English opera after Purcell / F. J. Sawyer -- Our cathedral composers and their works / G. F. Huntley -- The single and double reed instruments / D. J. Blaikley -- The water-organ of the ancients and the organ of to-day / F. W. Galpin -- The regal and its successors: the harmonica / T. L. Southgate -- The violin family and its music / W. W. Cobbett -- The brass wind instruments / J. E. Borland -- Some notes on early printed music / A.H. Littleton -- Music of the country-side / Sir E. Clarke. |
