Page:The International Folk-Lore Congress of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, July, 1893.djvu/503

 Rh American Indians, the utterances of the savage peoples were omitted, these being hardly developed to the point at which they might be called music; but it was decided to include a good showing from the Orient and semi-civilized nations. Selections of this sort coming more nearly into modern musical classifications. These selections, together with the contributions from those nations which excel in the fine arts, gave those interested in the performance a comprehensive view of people's music from its more elementary and formless stage up to the final developments of our own time. In arranging the program no attempt was made to put the numbers composing it in logical order. It would have been interesting to show how at the present day there exist contemporaneously most of the forms of musical utterance which would be found in the history of musical evolution during many thousands of years of man's history, but there was not time, in view of the multitude of attractions claiming one's attention during the fair, to go into the subject with so much attempt at scholarship. It is thought, however, that the collected numbers that appear on the following program were such as to give scholars considerable data of an interesting and valuable character.