Edmondstoune Duncan

The Story of Minstrelsy (Classic Reprint) Edmondstoune Duncan

Publisher Marketing: Excerpt from The Story of Minstrelsy An inquiry into the origin of Minstrelsy would necessitate a consideration of the earliest beginnings of Folksong, the invention of which, if not anterior to, is in all likelihood coeval with the origin of Speech. But men may have sung before speech was vouchsafed them. The animal world gives the thought a curious impulse: "Hark! hark ! the lark at Heaven's gate sings." Man's highest Te Deum can do little more. The curious may discover some pleasure in tracing the faint-almost illegible-characters which stand for the first records of music. Such an enterprise, however interesting, is not within the scope of our book. "Language," says Max Muller, "begins where interjections end. There is as much difference between a real word, such as to laugh and the interjection ha! ha! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.