A General History of Music

Dedication; Preface; Dissertation: 1. Of the notation or tablature of ancient music; 2. Of the three genera, Diatonic, Chromatic, and Enharmonic; 3. Of the modes; 4. Of mutations; 5. Of melopoeia; 6. Of rhythm; 7. Of the practice of melopoeia, with examples; 8. Whether the ancients had counterpoint, or music in parts?; 9. Of dramatic music; 10. Of the effects attributed to the music of the ancients; History: Of Egyptian music; Of Hebrew music; Of Greek music; 1. Of music in Greece during the residence of pagan divinities of the first order upon Earth; 2. Of the terrestrial, or demi-gods; 3. Concerning the music of heroes and heroic times; 4. Of the music of Greece from the time of Homer, till that country was subdued by the romans; 5. Of ancient musical sects, and theories of sound; 6. Of the scolia, or songs, of the ancient Greeks; Of the music of the Romans; Reflections upon the construction and use of some particular musical instruments of antiquity; A list and description of the plates; Index.