Excerpt from Music Club Programs From All Nations, Giving an Historic Outline of Each National School of Music: With Questions for Study, and a Series of Programs for the Use of Clubs and Other Organizations IN the dark ages music flourished but little in Germany; yet in the time of Charlemagne the art received royal patronage, and the Christian chants must have been heard among the savage races that he baptized by the might of his sword. At a later time, we find the monk, Franco of Cologne, inventing measured notation, possibly in Germany; but the first popular impetus given to music came from the Minnesingers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.