Rowbotham John. A History of Music. Vol. 2

London: Trübner & Co., 1886. — 666 p."Now I will pursue the fortunes of Musk among our Aryan ancestors, and here will be the beginning of a consecutive narrative that will reach to our own times. For hitherto we have been unable to trace the story of a regular development by the light of actual history, but since we left the half-fledged art on the verge of Prehistoric times, we have done little more than pass from nation to nation, and set down the condition of music in the most flourishing periods of those nations, or with the most pronounced peculiarities, which the national characters of each people impressed upon it...Very different was the estimation of the bard in those Ionian cities of Asia Minor where Homer sang. By this time many centuries had rolled by and had added sorrow and suffering to man's experience, and much destroyed that blithe conception of life which once had been. Then, too, new powers had arisen in the world and claimed men's homage ; the old era of art and song had fled before the clash of battle ; the Bardic Age had been followed by a Heroic Age, in which strength not Art was the object of man's reverence. And it was on the skirts of this Heroic Age that Homer lived, for I would willingly believe that he had seen Orchomenus before it was a ruin, and had passed through the gates of Mycenae. And he like the other minstrels of his time was poor and despised, and had to get his bread by singing at the banquets of the great, so that the complaint breaks from him, " There is nothing in all nature more miserable than a man."The music of the elder civilizations
The music of the Greeks
The Hindus
The Greeks