Excerpt from Primitive Music
With regard to technical particulars I may mention that on Dr. Mill's advice the names of savage tribes are spelt according to the new system proposed in 1891 by the London Geographical Society. The mode of quoting adopted in this book is that I refer with l. C. To the book mentioned in the list of authorities at the end of this work.
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A Victorian study of the music, instruments and dance of the world's indigenous peoples from which the author, a pioneer in comparative musicology, develops his theory of the origin of music based on rhythm and an innate sense of time, rather than the melody of speech.
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