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The American history and encyclopedia of music .., 1908
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1Music used in Mohammedan worship is composed on the same principles as the better class of secular music. Those who visit the whirling dervishes in Constantinople have the opportunity to hear one of the most characteristic specimens of Mohammedan sacred instrumental music. The wild, mysterious strains work so powerfully on the dervishes that they, in a heightened, ecstatic condition, forgetting self and the body, unconscious of the outer world, defy fatigue and perform the whirling dance for an hour or more.
3During the sacred month of Ramazan, one has the best opportunity to hear the Mohammedan sacred vocal music, as well as the instrumental. In the splendid mosques such music given by cultivated voices is very impressive indeed. But the unbridled shoutings in uncivilized regions or towns during this month can scarcely be recalled without terror.
5As said before, national capacities and national inclinations differ quite widely among the different races represented in Turkey. The Mongol descendants possess very little idea of music; other nationalities, representing the Indo-European races, possessing a fair quantity of it.
7The majority of Turks of noble birth are musically gifted, according to the degree of the Aryan blood they have in their veins; to the circumstances in which they have been brought up, and to the education they have received.
9Although the general taste and preference is for the Oriental music, by no means is this blind liking of the old and national absolute. The children of the nobility are taught European music, just as they are taught French, English or German. Even in their harems European governesses are not rarities. As foreigners have influenced the living, the customs and the costumes of the natives, so their influence on the tastes and the standards and the aspirations of the natives cannot be ignored.
11Not only through the numerous institutions of learning have they substituted the new for the old, but noble spirits of all civilized nations, by their living example, have co-oper-
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