INDIAN MUSIC. 181

Western concerted music, suggests a comparison of refined
.-and delicate Indian dyes with the brilliant variety of
modern chemical colouring matters, or the How of a deep
river with the rush of a noisy torrent. Western music,
;apart from emphasis laid upon technique often at the
•expense of feeling, is complex, troubled, reflecting as it
were many sides of life and thought at once. In Indian
music the emotions are unmixed, and each in turn exerts
its power. Of this sort must have been the music dreamt
of by More in his Utopia, which in this respect might
have been written of India.

" For all their musike bo the that they play upon instrumentes,
and that they singe with mannes voyee dothe so resemble and expresse
•natural affections, the sound of the tune is so applied and made
agreable to the things, that whether ifc bee a prayer, or els a dytty
of gladnes, of patience, of trouble, of mourninge, or of anger; the
fassion of the melodye dothe so represente the meaning of the
thing, that it dothe wonderfullye move, stirre, pearee, and enflame
the hearers myndes."

(MOEE'S UTOPIA.)

A little of the tenderness of Indian music is reflected
in a passage from the Arabian Nights already quoted.
Those who once fall beneath its sway are for evet
^pell-bound by its magic. For the modern world it is too
perfect and too refined. It is more the misfortune than
the fault of Europeans and Europeanized Indians that they
cannot appreciate its beauty. Accustomed to the noisy
music of an orchestra, the artificial atmosphere of an
upholstered and crowded concert hall, and the complexity
•and variety of emotion awakened by the elaborate develop-
ments of modern Western music, it is not surprising that
the delicacy and subjectivity of Indian music leave them
little moved, or ^ive only an impression of monotony.

If in comparing the music of East and West, it may
be said that in harmony and combined effects?, the West