Hindostan is technically the Indus and Ganges basins and it is with the music of that part of India that this book primarily deals. Indian music as elsewhere is of varying excellence. The author in the beginning gives an account of his musical experiences during a tour through India history of Indian music scale mode various ragas grace tala drumming ethos and structure of some of the oldest music forms and lastly the laws of melody in Indian music. About the Author A.H. Fox Strangways (1859-1948) was an English musicologist translator editor and music critic. As a music master Strangways developed an interest in Indian music and in the years before the First World War he did much to bring Tagore to wider attention. In 1925 he moved to the Observer as chief music critic
