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Music of the lower animals — Of savage man and Hindoos 

 — Music of the stone age — The cannibal Pan — Singing 

 of savages — Origin of song — Diderot and Herbert 

 Spencer — The cries of passion — Music founded on 

 passion and play — Music older than speech — Origin of 

 rhythm — Impassioned speech in savage and civilised 

 man — Song in speech and speech in song — Darwin's 

 theory — Herbert Spencer's theory of the function of 

 music — What is Poetry ? — Spiritual senses — ^Music and 

 Poetry sister arts — Furthest apart at their greatest, 

 and nearest at their lowest . . . . -255 



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Instrumental music, one with vocal music in its origin — 

 Instrumental music in the lower animals — Insects — 

 Cicada — Locusts — CEcanthus; silence, moonlight and 

 tears made audible — Locusta viridissima and music in 

 insects and man — A robber fly's musical performance 

 — Of insect wing-music generally — Hover-fly — Birds as 

 instrumentalists — Storks and woodpeckers — Wings as 

 instruments of music — Wing slappings and clappings 

 — Bleating of snipe — Origin of wing-music . .281 



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Instrumental music and its evolution — A book that is 

 wanted — Fashion, caprice and selection — The piano 

 made perfect — The quality most desired in musical 

 sound — A bird and insect illustration — Naturalness of 

 instrumental music — A bird-voice and the power of 

 expression — Human expression of instrumental music 

 — The harp — Obsolete and reigning instruments — A 

 first experience of great music — Cause of different 

 effects produced by bird and human music — Conclusion 299 



