The Music of Hindostan c6.102
The Music of Hindostan c6.102
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c6.102
It was not till I had been some months in India that I found the opportunity I had been waiting for of overhearing a folk-melody. I awoke at Madras, about 5.30 a.m., to the sound of singing; it was next door, and seemed to come from a woman about her household duties. In the dim light I scribbled down the following: