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The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1swaying forms. When man fights man, the warriors stimulate their courage with the dance. It is rarely a noiseless dance, but is accompanied primarily by hand clapping, which survives today with the shuffling dance of the southern negro. The hand clapping may be combined with the beating of drums. The hollow tree accidentally struck was perhaps the first inanimate thing to speak. The hearer was no doubt startled into such a feeling of awe by the mystery surrounding the production of the new sound, that he made a god of the tree, and as he discovered that other hollow and solid things spoke, his gods increased. From the hollow tree grew the drum, which means much to primitive men. It may be their god, or it may serve as a medium for communication with their god. It instils joy, sadness, or courage. It can give orders in battle and carry messages in peaceful times. The sounds produced by the drum possess strong attraction to the ears of the savage, and this led to its early transformation into an instrument of music, and in this latter capacity it appears in the present military bands and orchestras.
3Herodotus writes that Athene, the goddess of knowledge, invented the flute, but threw it away because of the facial distortions its playing caused. In its stead she took the lyre, which Hermes, the winged messenger of the gods, had invented and had given to Apollo, the god of music. Apollo praised the wonderful sound, which neither gods nor men had heard before, as until then he had been contented with the amorous sighing of the flute. But long before Athene's flute or Apollo's lyre were heard, music had come into being with the cymbals of the Curetes, the attendants of Zeus.
5The Greeks attributed the discovery of the open pipe to the uncouth Pan, the god of the shepherds, who loved the beautiful Syrinx, but whose rough wooing won him only disdain. Finally he pursued the nymph to the reedy bank of the stream, where in desperation she called upon the gods for help. In answer they transformed her into a reed that
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