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The American history and encyclopedia of music .., 1908
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1or into thirds. So it is plain why their singing seems to us either sharp or flat and very evident that their tunes cannot be played on our instruments without alteration of many of the notes.
3The divisions of the Hindu octave are variously given as twenty-two and sixteen. The number of the divisions is given as twenty-two by the following authorities: On the Musical Modes of the Hindus, Sir William Jones' works (1784), vol. I. p. 426. Music of the Most Ancient Nations, Carl Engel (1864), p. 146. The Study of National Music, Carl Engel (1866), p. 45. History of Music, Emil Nau-man, vol. II, p. 21. A popular History of Music, W. S. B. Mathews, Chicago (1891), p. 71.
5This is declared to be an error, and sixteen is given as the correct number of tones in the octave by Rev. Edward Webb, Lincoln University, in a paper on "Hindu Modes and Tunes," read before the American Oriental Society at their annual meeting in Columbia College, New York City, March 30, 1894.
7At the present time, the Hindu people are so largely influenced by the contact with the English that Christian church music takes its place as a part of the music of the people. Translations of English hymns into the vernacular are set to English tunes, and, in addition, Christian lyrics are set to their own native tunes; but the effort to adapt these tunes is not very successful.
9In a recent editorial on "Native Church Music," in a bilingual paper of North Ceylon, a Tamil gentleman writes: "The present decadent state of Tamil music in our churches is very largely due to the inharmonious effort to effect an alliance between the genius of the Tamil lyric music and the do-re-me-fa of the harmonium. East is East and West is West even in music. In the churches where lyrics are sung, the singing is either most murderously unmusical, or is sung to a tune which is best described as a hybrid. The inevitable harmonium cuts and hacks the tune to such an extent that it is neither Tamil nor English. The effort to suit the lyrics
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