Scan 71
The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1906
22 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1Dream Music
3According to Heron-Allen, whose views coincide with those of Fétis, the violin genealogy would be as follows, beginning with the revanastron, of which we shall hear more shortly:
5Revanastron
6 |
7 |______Kemangeh
8 | |
9 | |______Gigue
10 | | |______Kit
11 | | |______Viol
12 | |______Rebab
13 | | |______Rubebe
14 | | | |______Rebec
15 | | | | |______Viol
16 | | | |______Viol
17 | |______Viol
18 |______Viol
19 |______Viol
21There is a pretty little old tale about the devotion of the Gopi, nymphs and shepherdesses, to the young god Krishna, temporarily incarnated upon earth as a handsome shepherd. There were sixteen thousand Gopi, and in order to win the god's favour from her sisters, each one invented, to do him homage, a new key. This story is, of course, most fanciful and fantastic, but there survive still thirty-six keys in India. The charm of the vina has been commemorated by every Hindoo and Mohammedan poet; it is a seductive thing enough, with a wailing note and an insistent element of mystic enchantment.
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