The Music of Hindostan c6.8

c6.8

Except in street cries and sailors' chanties—the former in order to make the voice carry and to secure prompt recognition, the latter to ensure precision of movement—we hardly know in Europe that melodic impulse which finds vent in the occupation songs¹ of the East. The contrast of the two worlds is epitomized for us even before we actually land at Bombay. The A.B. seaman jolts out in a gruff practical voice his