The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c5.48

c5.48

Of the two systems practised in Southern India at the present time, the Hindustani is somewhat akin to that of Northern India and Bengal. It is practised mostly by Mussalman musicians, while the Karnâtik is confined more to those of the Southern races. The latter, which may be called the national music of the South, is far more scientific and refined than the Hindustani, and its professors are, as a rule, men of much better education; a fact that is not without influence upon their music, and seems apparent in all their melodies, but particularly in the renderings they give of them.