A Story Outline of Evolution 



monlous vibrations of Nature are set In motion. Our nerve 

 centers are aroused and rejuvenated and our emotions are 

 charmed by the vibrations we are hearing. 



"From harmony to harmony 

 This universal frame began. 

 From harmony to harmony 

 The diapason closing full in man." 



This Is a heritage from the ages. 



We have been listening to the voice of Nature Inter- 

 preted and reproduced by man through agencies made by 

 man. The peculiar characters and symbols recorded on the 

 sheets of paper are characters representing a sign-language, 

 a language through which music can be spoken and under- 

 stood. These symbols are the results of evolutionary growth 

 throughout the centuries. In the early times, the letters of 

 the alphabet were used as scale measurement markers. Next 

 came the neumes — from the eighth to the twelfth century, 

 which were characters used principally to denote a rise and 

 fall of the voice. Finally our present system of notes has 

 come to us through a long period of gradation. Likewise, 

 all the musical Instruments have come to us through cen- 

 turies of experiments by thousands of patient workers. They 

 are the results of trying out, comparing, eliminating, adding 

 to and changing in our effort to more nearly reach perfec- 

 tion. Egyptians, Hebrews, Assyrians, Greeks and Romans 

 were the leaders in ancient music, but their instruments were 

 of the crudest kinds. They consisted largely of harps, flutes, 

 trumpets, lyres, drums, tambourines and cymbals, but with 

 these crude instruments, the Egyptian orchestra had a reach 



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