“Musical Myths and Facts” in 2 volumes is one of the best-known works by a German author Carl Engel.
Volume 1:
A Musical Library
Elsass-Lothringen
Music and Ethnology
Collections of Musical Instruments
Musical Myths and Folk-lore
The Studies of our Great Composers
Superstitions concerning Bells
Curiosities in Musical Literature
The English Instrumentalists
Musical Fairies and their Kinsfolk
Sacred Songs of Christian Sects…
Volume 2:
Mattheson on Handel
Diabolic Music
Royal Musicians
Composers and Practical Men Music and Medicine
Popular Stories with Musical Traditions
Dramatic Music of Uncivilized Races
A Short Survey of the History of Music
Chronology of the History of Music
The Musical Scales in Use at the Present Day…