How music grew, from prehistoric times to the present day

part is a poem not based on fact, in which Charlemagne fights Baligant,

the chief of all the pagans of the Orient; the western chief is victorious over the pagan chief, who is utterly defeated and killed. This poem pictures the victory of Christianity over Paganism. In the third part, the revenge is carried further, by Charlemagne’s taking the Saracen city Saragosse, and bringing ba...