The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c4.3

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Sir William Jones, at the end of the last century, endeavoured to dispel ideas of this nature, and his learned essay upon *The Musical Modes of the Hindus* has formed the basis of almost all Indian musical research. Some forty years later Captain Augustus Willard, who at that time commanded the troops in the service of H.H. the Nawab of Banda, published an interesting little *Treatise upon the Music of Hindustan*, a book which is now so scarce as to be almost unobtainable. Notwithstanding the real interest of both these works they are, unfortunately, of comparatively small practical use to the ordinary musical enquirer, unless, indeed, he is fortunate enough to possess a considerable previous knowledge of the subject.