The Music of Hindostan c6.34
The Music of Hindostan c6.34
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c6.34
On tour with an Indian civilian we inspected a village school. After the boys had gone through their gymnastics, the ‘monkey-leap’, the ‘crocodile crawl’, and the like, we received the pungent and in my case vicarious tribute of marigold wreaths, and the schoolmaster recited a Sanskrit poem of his own composition in honour of the presiding dignitary. Beginning with a mere rise and fall of the voice it settled gradually into a set melody.