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 in their prejudice, which forms a tough skin and prevents them from feeling any sense of the beauty and charm of the music. One can only hope that some day they will wake up to the fact that prejudice is farthest removed from discrimination, and that it has resulted not only in their loss but also in a loss to all, inasmuch as it has hampered a real appreciation of things Eastern. Strange though it may appear, there are many Indians who feel just the same about western music. An Indian gentleman in Lahore remarked to me that western music to him was like 'the howling of a jackal in a desert.' One is glad to know that there are to-day an increasing number of both westerners and easterners who are learning to appreciate the charm and the art of the music of the other.

It would be well now to gather together some of the important distinctions between Indian and western music.

1. The dominant factor in Indian music is melody, while that of western music is harmony. In the one case notes are related to definite notes of a raga, and in the other case to varying chords. Indian melody is produced by the regulated succession of concordant notes, while western harmony arises from the agreeable concord of various related notes. As a result of this differentiation, Indian music has developed solely along the lines of melody, while the greatest development of western music has taken place in the region of harmony. Does the fact that western music has developed a second dimension, so to speak, make it more advanced than Indian music? Can we call Indian music thereby inferior or primitive? Indian music has taken one line of development, that of melody; and, in order to add to its charm and variety, has developed every phase of it, including time-measure, in ways that have never occurred to the western mind. These are two lines of development, and perhaps one has travelled as far along its line, as the other upon its line. There has been far more development in Indian music, than even many Indian musicians were aware of; as until recently there was no opportunity for the different lines of development to converge or to co-operate with each other, owing to the enormous distances, the