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order to please his ear. The Oriental plays or sings in order to. 
express emotions for which there are no words and no gestures, 
no designs and no colours. The ear and sonorousness, in 
regret in their arrogant and ignorant reports; therefore the 
Educational Council yt 
la Devi and Pandit Kishn mbar are alre 
work, and ich musically has found sympathetic 
audience even in London, thanks to Ratan Devi, rs. 
and human duties from an Oriental rather than from the average 
European point of view. 
Now we have to proceed from Indian musical folklore to 
Indian artistic music. We shall again employ European art- 
istic music which we know, as a means of understanding 
Indian artistic music which we know less. We have spoken of 
the laws of acoustics, to which every sound of the present days’ 
European music, in so far (and that is very far) as it employs 
the piano, is subjected. These acoustic laws are termed laws of 
‘*eoncord ’’ ; that is, every sound of European artistic music is 
intentionally abandoned to laws which have nothing whatever 
