. BSE » Folk Songs of Many Nations Collected and Edited | with j Preface and Annotations i ey LEIPSIC, LONDON.Copyright MCMV by The John Church Company. Intersting! Copyright.Preface. It has been my effort, in thie volume, to present several characteristic songs of various nations, in contrast with each other, Instead of writing along fore-word, it has seemed better to give such notes and comments as were necessary, upon the music of each song, so that the singercan easily become familiar with the chief facts of the history or the musieal construction of each number. Yet one point may be earnestly impressed upon the reader and musician at the outset. There is no def Inite scale thet can be traced to any immutable physical law! The scale has been a veritable Tow- ex of Babel in Music, and just as nations difer in languages, they may vary in their musial scales. Wo ace so prone to imagine that our scale (major and minor) is the sum of all music, that it may be well to-give a few scales here that are not in consonance with our system. ‘The Hindoo soalé divides into third-tones ané-quarter-tones, in a manner that defies notation by ym, or performance upon our keyed instruments. ‘The chief scale of China runs thus: SS SS ‘The chief scale of the Byzantine music is as follows: sess Avery old church scale also used in Scottish folk-music is: asa