ANARCHY IN MUSIC Music is as old as human nature.

We can get some idea of what it was at first from the music of savage tribes.

There were a few notes and rudimentary melodies with blows struck in cadence as an accompaniment; or, sometimes, the same primitive rhythms without any accompaniment--and nothing else! Then melody was perfected and the rhythms became more complicated.

Later came Greek music, of which we know little, and the music of the East and Far East.
Music, as we now understand the term, began with the attempts at harmony in the Middle Ages.

These attempts were labored and difficult, and the uncertainty of their gropings, combined with the slowness of their development, excites our wonder.