Scan 70
The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1906
28 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026, twice; the two readings disagreed in places. 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 | |– Gigue one of two readings
9 | |– Kit one of two readings
10 | |– Viol one of two readings
11(no line here) one of two readings
12 |– Rebab
13 | |– Rubebe one of two readings
14 | |– Rebec one of two readings
15 | |– Viol one of two readings
16 |– Rubebe one of two readings
17 |– Rebec one of two readings
18 |– Viol one of two readings
19 |– Viol one of two readings
20 |– Gigue one of two readings
21 |– Kit one of two readings
22 |– Viol one of two readings
23 |– Viol
24 |– Violin one of two readings
25 |– Viol one of two readings
27There 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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