38. Psychology of Indian Music, 
By AtrreD WestHarpP (Mus. Doc.). 
What does the European know of Oriental music ? 
What does the Englishman, who enjoys the hospitality of 
musical amateur but al those Europeans who treat of 
Oriental music in writing) all hold Oriental, and especially Indian, 
music to be a kind of noise produced sometimes by harsh 
voices and sometimes by a still harsher flute, accompanied by 
the low brumming sound of the native drum. 
uropeans from lack of opportunity have little or no 
ich i y often sacred in 
character and confined to temples, from which not only Euro- 
peans but all unbelievers are rigidly excluded, they have got 
the impression that all Oriental music is a confused medley of 
the subject dared pro- 
Is it not a most remarkable 
country in probing problems of this description, has not 
et, so to speak, entered the antechamber o 
soul of the East. 
f Europe. 
hristianity, the most negative religion of the world, the 
aspirations come 
product of the Hebrew race, whose negative — 
world—Europe. It goes without saying that the positive spirit 
of Europe became over-excited t 
