880-01,"First edition."

Includes bibliographical references.

"In this groundbreaking, all-encompassing work, an eminent musicologist explores the evolution of music. It ranges from the ecstatic singing and Shaman songs of early civilizations to the development of more structured styles in Egypt, East Asia, India, Greece, Rome, the Middle East, and Europe. Eight plates of illustrations depict players and orchestras from China, Korea, Burma, India, and Egypt."--Back cover

"This book is a history of music from ancient times to the middle ages. While other writers have dealt with primitive, Oriental and Hellenic music, they have been limited to certain musical aspects of single countries, of China or India or Greece. Here for the first time is a book that covers all the different, yet closely related, styles of the ancient world in the East and in the West. It is a fascinating synthesis which shows how for thousands of years music has been held in balance between the material and the immaterial, the rational and the irrational. It demonstrates how races living far apart have met in strange parallels in music--the Greeks and the Japanese, Europeans and North American Indians. It gives more distinct outlines to primitive styles, reinterprets Oriental systems, opens an entirely new perspective on Greek music and exposes the roots from which the music of the West has grown. After a comprehensive section on primitive music, the book describes the music of the four great regions of the ancient world, the Western Orient, Egypt, Sumer and Babylonia, the music of China and Japan, the music of India, and Greek and Roman music, concluding with a discussion of the Greek heritage in the music of Islam and the beginnings of mediaeval music in Europe." --Jacket.

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