The Music of Hindostan c6.62

c6.62

At Bangalore men and women were pulling a roller over a new made road. The voices were rough; the solo enthusiastic but of poor tone, and the chorus consequently took some time to settle down to the tune. Several of the men punctuated the first of the songs with boos and poohs to represent the drum at the places marked *; they were started by the man who scraped the mud off the roller. (Alternate four and six-bar sections.)