Antique Book Illustrated General History of Music in 3 volumes by Prof. E. Naumann The development of musical art from ancient times to the present day. Translation from German, supplemented by the latest sources with the addition of essays on the history of music in Russia edited by Nick. Findaizen. The F. V. Shchepatskogo edition is 1897. Full set in three volumes. Introduction: What is the name of the spiritual force that in our modern life gathers daily hundreds of thousands of reverent pilgrims to the silent, exposing the deepest inner excitement, attention? What is the name of that wondrous daughter of heaven who, having for the most diverse nations the same attractive power, speaks in a language that does not need, as the work of a poet, a translation, but which can be understood under all the poles? - Her name MUSIC, musical art is that which works similar miracles and has such magical power; and the history of music alone is among its sisters: poetry, architecture, plasticity and painting. But a person wants, as to what constantly worries his spirit and heart, not only to be happy to improve - he also wants to justify and understand it, for he guesses that only then will he become at the same time the highest educational tool for him. The desire for such a deep understanding and justification should be doubly strong in relation to such art as music, especially since music is not only rich in mysterious and mysterious influences, but it is equally the most sensual and the most abstract art. Music is the most sensitive art, for it touches our nervous system much more directly than its art sisters, and therefore it excites us physically; it is the most supersensuous or abstract art, for its material, tone, is not only disembodied, but even never adjoined as the material of poetry - language, to concepts and representations. The existence of such amazing phenomena, apparent contradictions in the essence of music directly explains why since the last decades thousands of people have amazingly increased interest in the relationship of musical art to life and to the whole spiritual culture and has now assumed such a volume that already these relations are given infinitely more general and broad significance than ever before. From this we can deduce an increasing participation in the universal history of music; for only history gives the most profound answer to the questions of why, where and where of any development, whether the question of the history of mankind, the people, social life or science, religion and art goes. The universal history of music in 1897 will be an amazing gift to every musician or person interested in music as the book addresses the historical development of art, so much obscure and mysterious as the art that creates and thinks in tones. Book of Em. Naumana clearly indicates the original path and the goal of the path traveled by music in order to go from its most primitive manifestations to such a higher expression of its being, thanks to which we see it penetrating into the hearts of contemporaries and subordinating them to the power of its influences.