Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1891 — Chinese Music. [ARTICLE]

Chinese Music.

The Chinese seem to have a very arbitrary way of fitting w ords to music. The voice frequently drops out before the end of a musical phrase, and enters quite as unexpectedly, while the melody flows on in the orchestra with endless repetitions, relieved occasionally by half a dozen bars in which all the melody instruments cease, and the gongs, cymbals, drums, and castanets play alone.— Ceiiturif, Tan committee appointed last September to inquire into the causes of the abnormally high mortality in Madras has reported that the water supply and the drainage are defective.