Freebookapalooza: Engel. Musical myths and facts

Today's free book is Musical myths and facts by Carl Engel (1876). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available at Hathi Trust and Project Gutenberg: Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (I have not checked for other online sources).

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Table of Contents

Volume 1
A Musical Library
Elsass-Lothringen
Music and Ethnology
Collections of Musical Instruments
Musical Myths and Folk-lore
Curious Coincidences
Hindu Traditions
Celestial Quarrels
Al-Farabi
Trusty Ferdinand
The Wild Huntsman
The Bold German Baron
Prophetic Calls of Birds
Whistling
The Studies of our Great Composers
Superstitions concerning Bells
Protective Bell-ringing
Significant Sounds of Bells
Baptised Bells
Inscriptions on Church Bells
The Church Bells Banishing the Mountain Dwarfs
The Expulsion of Paganism in Sweden
Curiosities in Musical Literature
The English Instrumentalists
Musical Fairies and their Kinsfolk
The Fairies of the Maories
Adventures in the Highlands
The Importunate Elves
Bad Spirits
The Musician and the Dwarfs
The Little Folks
Macruimean's Bagpipe
The Gygur Family
Linus, the King's Son
Necks
The Christian Neck
Maurice Connor
Water Lilies
Ignis Fatuus
The Fairy Music of our Composers
Sacred Songs of Christian Sects

Volume 2

Mattheson on Handel

Diabolic Music

The Awful Deception

The Indefatigable Fiddler

The Effectual Expedient

The Old Chorale

The Haunted Mansion

The Mode Asbein
Witches
The Changeling
The Vendish Sorcerer
The Rat-Catcher of Hameln
The Exquisite Organ

Royal Musicians

Composers and Practical Men

Music and Medicine

Pages

Engel. Musical myths and facts