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The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1906
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1Dream Music
3are not soft nor sentimental. They are the inevitable national expression, the outcome of thousands of years spent in dreams. The inner life of India has always been as acute, as vital as the external, — perhaps even more so in its importance and effect. The mystic existence of the soul has been from the beginning of paramount value to the Asiatic. He has always lived in dreams, and his music is perhaps the most characteristic and elemental expression of the eternal revery of the race.
5Although this is hardly the place to speak of Persia, the great mysterious nation forever to us associated with Zoroaster and the rose-garden of Omar, yet before we leave the East we must pause for a moment to offer tribute to Persian music, the sensuously yet tenderly poetic music which is as lovely to-day as it was a thousand years ago.
7The Persians were a renownedly musical people. Although they were splendid soldiers, they were the gentlest, most artistic of races, and song came as readily from their lips as perfume from a rose. John Lord speaks of "their love of truth, their heroism in war, the simplicity of their habits . . . their kindness toward women and slaves," and other gentle traits pleasant to dwell on amid
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