Life and work in India; an account of the conditions, methods, difficulties, results, future prospects and reflex influence of missionary labor in India, especially in the Punjab mission of the United Presbyterian Church of North America . , is divided into twenty-twosubtones, instead of the twelve semi-tones of the European scale, andthe complicated structure of its musical modes rests upon three separatesystems, one of which consists of five, another of six, and another ofseven notes. The effect upon a Western ear is not always seems often like a ballad in a minor key sung intent
Life and work in India; an account of the conditions, methods, difficulties, results, future prospects and reflex influence of missionary labor in India, especially in the Punjab mission of the United Presbyterian Church of North America . , is divided into twenty-twosubtones, instead of the twelve semi-tones of the European scale, andthe complicated structure of its musical modes rests upon three separatesystems, one of which consists of five, another of six, and another ofseven notes. The effect upon a Western ear is not always seems often like a ballad in a minor key sung intentionally out oftune; and melodies which the Indian composer pronounces to be theperfection of harmony, and wliich have for ages touched the hearts andfired the imagination of Indian audiences, are condemned as discordby the European critic.* Yet some of its tunes are most very weirdness, wildness, plaintiveness and curious repetitionschain the attention and entrance the heart even of a foreigner, and toa native are as irresistible as the songs of paradise. Of some hill airsintroduced into a new edition of a Hindustani tune book, containing*l3ir William Hunters The Indian Empire, p. 119. Zabur 22.* Moderately fast BE. /T- ^^3^33^3^ m-n:! Refrain
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