[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891) › c9.2 # The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c9.2 The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c9.2 - **Language:** English ### [c9.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c9.2) THE wide divergence of taste in the matter of music between European and Asiatic nations has doubtless arisen from the fact that while Western nations gradually discarded the employment of mode, and clothed the melody with harmony, the Eastern nations in this respect made little or no progress; and now, in India, the employment of authentic modes and melody types (or râgas) is still jealously adhered to. - [Previous: c9.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c9.1) - [Next: c9.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c9.3) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c9.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c9.2) · Pramāṇa