Following pages furnish an account of the music of various nations, civilised or uncivilised, on the face of the habitable globe. It must be acknowledge, however, that this treatise does not pretend to be exhaustive, nor are the descriptions characterised by, a uniformity of system in the manipulation of the subject. Specimens of the songs of different nations have been given in this book, not only because Music and Poetry are, according to Sanskrit lore, presided over by one and the same deity. Baravati, and are, therefore, intimately connected with each other, but also because an acquaintance with the spirit of a nation's songs facilitates the understanding of the spirit of its music and poetry which are but the outward Expression of the inner workings of a nation's heart.

A few fact concerning Hindu music are. Given a place in the Appendix. To enter into details of the kind in the body of the work would be going beyond its general scope.

My acknowledgments are pre-eminently das to the authors of the several valuable works from which I have gleaned the materials for this compilation. They have been alluded to in some portion or other of the book. To those whom I may have omitted to mention by name and to others, including editors of. Encyclopaedias, Musical Dictionaries and Gazetteers, and publishers of general history and geography. I take this opportunity of tendering my grateful thanks.

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