Scan 75
The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1906
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1The Heart of Music
3the battle, murder, and sudden death that fills the chronicles of antiquity.
5When Parmenio, Alexander's general, conquered Persia he found three hundred and twenty-nine women musicians in the royal palace,—proof positive of the position music held in ancient Persia.
7The Islamite races fed on dreams and poured visions into their songs as into their tales. The Arabs dreamed on the desert, the Moors dreamed in the mountains, the Turks dreamed in the palaces,—everywhere they dreamed, and still dream, under the changeless orange sun. Haroun al Raschid was not the only ruler of the East to pardon a woman prisoner because of the lute-playing of an attendant, which set him dreaming so that he forgot his wrath.
9Dreams—dreams! They come like phantoms, evoked by the very whisper of the word "Orient"—the East, the Enigma of the World. The thought brings pictures sketched in tones of shadow. The sonorous tumbling music of the Ganges, the white flame-tipped wonders of the Himalayas, the dense wetgreen of the jungle in spring, the echo of the temple bell across the sentient stillness of noon,—these things come to us at the very name of India. Strange to think that
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