Historical Development of Indian Music: A Critical Study c2.16

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It is gratifying to learn that the Deccan College of Poona has already started its experimental research upon music, under the able guidence of Dr. Sankaran, Dr. B. Chaitanya Dev, and others. The Indian Institute of Science at Bāṅgālore is also making new researches on music. Interesting experiments are also going on in the Universities of Jubbalpore and Ānnāmālāi, where the chemists and botanists are studying the effect of music on the properties of matter and plants. The same experiments have already been started in the laboratories of Bell Telephone Company, Harvard and Iwoa Universities, in the West. A. H. Swinton, Prof. A. M. Mayer, Frank E. Lutz, and others have also made researchs on the musical sounds of the insects, and some of their research works have been published in the *Bulletin* of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, U.S.A. All these works and researches reveal hopeful sign for the future prospect of the world music.