MUSIC

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) The nrt of combining sounds ed, but agreeable to the ear. This art becomes a profound science Romans when we investigate the principles on which its comb in a to cultivate tions are founded, and the causes of the emotions it produces. sic, which Hebrew Music. — Notwithstanding the great labours of the even early fathers of the church, and of many other learned men, there are few materials, even in the Scriptures themselves, number of the for a very satisfactory account of the music of the Jewish Among nation, whose restricted intercourse with other nations pre music vents our receiving any illustration of it from contemporary writers. All that can be done is to cite a few pa ages from the destruction holy writ relative to the first ages of the world, from which the present it will be seen that, from a very early period, the nrt con pa age stantly ministered to the religious ceremonies of the He their brews. Moses (Gen., iv., 21) tells us that Jubal, sixth in decoming scent from Cain, was "the father of all such as handle the the present harp and organ." The organ here mentioned, according to in traditional their the commentators, was the syrinx, or a species of Pan's At Prague pipes. This must have been but a short period after the deluge. Six hundred years after this period Laban re- Egyptian proaches Jacob thus: " Wherefore didst thou flee away segeneral cretly,and steal away from me? and didst not tell me, that Egyptian especially » Cicero say i four (Ate ffat. Deorum, iii., cap. 21); but in this be ii at us that Tariance wuh Ibe Greek aulhoritiea. (Pauiantai, lib. iz.) and that [s. 801]