The Music of Hindostan c11.113

c11.113

sung as I heard it on their anniversary (January 25) with a choir of twelve voices supported, in unison, by a small organ and two violins, with drum, was extremely impressive. In particular the phrase marked (a) at the end of each section seemed to give it that sort of sublimity which we recognize in those chords that smote on Samuel Butler’s ear on his entrance into Erewhon.