...ccumulations of manipulated, separate notes? What is the origin of music but percussion, or the duplicated, repetitive sound of a tool hitting an o... ...t places where squirrels choose to hide their stores of seeds and nuts. Most Northern forests are planned by the unconscious instinctive decisions o... ...ruments. By smashing and beating on hollow things with sticks and calling it percussion: so the reverberations inside the hollow drum are projected ... ...m the original Runners. Who ran with the wild migrating herds in their yearly North- South migrations. As a result: they became slightly braver th... ...of a few lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived... ...ew lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived? It ... ...hapter Three: Summary of Hominid-Human development 205 The earliest North American cultures invented bone-tools and flint tools by themselves. B... ...plitting with crude stones as the first form of stone technology. After North American humans began splitting Mammoth-bones: did they start evolving... ...ing their minds, hearts, bodies, musical instruments, props, costumes, music, percussion, loudness, noise… to impress to other people how important...

...egor, New York, July 1, 1885 CHAPTER I ANCESTRY—BIRTH—BOYHOOD MY FAMILY IS AMERICAN, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and col... ... my school-days in Georgetown were spent at the school of John D. White, a North Carolinian, and the father of Chilton White who represented the distr... ...one would form going there now. I had been east to Wheeling, Virginia, and north to the Western Reserve, in Ohio, west to Louisville, and south to Bou... ...the United States and New Mexico—another Mexican state at that time—on the north and west. An empire in territory, it had but a very sparse population... ...empire in territory, it had but a very sparse population, until settled by Americans who had re- ceived authority from Mexico to colonize. These colon... ...acy to acquire territory out of which slave states might be formed for the American Union. Even if the annexation itself could be justified, the manne... ...privates. This would not secure a band leader, nor good players on certain instruments. In gar- rison there are various ways of keeping up a regimenta... ... had been limited to the old United States flint-lock muskets changed into percussion, or the Belgian musket imported early in the war—almost as dange... ...e was a wagon, supplied with a telegraph operator, bat- tery and telegraph instruments for each division, each corps, each army, and one for my headqu...