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FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1930.*

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Wednesday, 22nd January, Thursday, 8th February.

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IYO MARU

SIBERIA MARU

Tuesday, 28th January. Wednesday, 12th February. LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM vin

Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez HAKOZAKI MARU

. HAKUSAN MARU

.Saturday, 25th January.

Saturday, 8th February.

Wednesday, 22nd January. Wednesday, 10th February. BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.

23rd January.

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.

AKI MARU

KAGA MARU

† NAGATO MARU BENGAL MARU

Thursday, Friday,

81st January.

SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles,

Mexico & Panoma. BOKUYO MARU

Blomday,

27th January.

SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Ports,

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Saturday, 1st February,

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Monday,

17th February.

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..... Wednesday,

Monday Monday,

..... Friday,

29th January.

20th January. 29th January. 24th January.

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Wednesday, 22nd January... **................... Tuesday, 26th February.

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HONOLULU MARU

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Saturday, 18th January. *** Saturday, 1st February.

MUSIC OF THE EAST

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perial Yellow, the border with Indigo blue pillars of axquisite mosaic, and the centre of Interest is the Emerald Buddha, that green {jade Aguro enthroned under golden umbrellas and surrounded by pray. ing devas.'. The Image earthed at Klong-Hat nearly Ave eenturies ago, was subsequently stolen by invading Cambodians and later recovered by the Siamese. The temple was begun in 1785 and there was a considerable period dur- ing which it romained half finished. The element of fitness which inevitably surrounds eastern In 1879 the King vowed to complete Hit and it was dedicated on April 21, musical expression is very impressive. Although the vast shimmer

1882. of sound which is inseparable from all Oriental neighbourhoods be-

Subtlety in Java speaks the spontaneous expression of natural emotions In Java all things are done with

the utmost subtlety and glowing) it largely follows characteristic forms. The milliner has beauty. For sheer musical beauty his own music, made with A dram to whose upper Java is particularly rich. Its musio Is one of the most lovely treasures side is affixed a "Ta'ao-Ku" or gong. When the milliner makes the of sound to be found anywhere in musical noises typically associated with his calling there is no likeli-, the Exat. The "gamelang" or theatre hood of his being mistaken, let us say, for the candy merchant who of Java is possibly unsurpassed, I with its combined music and acting. has a small ""lo" or gong of a different type as an aid to his business. The two are wedded to such a degree And it could not be possible in all the cast to find a milliner who of perfection that they seem to have advanced far beyond European cul- would relinquish his drum and "Tao-Ku” for the simple “lo.”

tura. Evan "Pelleas and Melisanda”. is unlikely to give such pleasure as this extra-stage art of Java which has the Noh drama of Japan for Its only rival. The Javanese or- Fitness is a predominant charac- attention is given the ballad singers chestra consists of wind, string and teristic of the music of India too. as they exhibit emotion, picturing percussion instruments, the latter For a time-one Abdul Kahrim, a auffering or laughing heartily as in preponderance to the other two. Hindu musician of Persian extrac the occasion requires, and the bands

The only possible means of re- tion, was going about on a musical have a variety of cheap, simple in-producing the music of the Orient in pilgrimage from the north through struments with which addition is the Weat la by borrowing a few of the more readily mastered instru- the south, teaching those ho could made to the din. interest In the ancient music of his

Seasonal Significance

ments, such as bells, cymbals, small

utmost simplicity and virtuosity, seasonal significance. There is, for with instruments commonly in use people. He was singing with the

Eastern music has pronounced proximating the sounds of others gongs and native drums and of ap-

many folk songs that had come example, a certain kind of music by Western players. down across the

The typical centuries, depen-heard in China at the Winter Sols-attenuation of sound can be produc- dent for perpetuation in the know- tice, "when the sun commences toed by the use of a fow players in- ledge of succeeding generations beat warmly and to revive all stead of many; the fragile tones of upon such devotees of their beauties provide a sort of solomu recessional the "chao" psaltery, "which begin as he, He was known to be able for the sun.". The Chinese relate and end on the bridge of the silver. to sing one song in particular about their music to the twelve moons of erested love pheasant" (a purely a blue flower. Abdul Kahrim was the year, and there are various symbolic term meaning, of course, one of the few who knew the song. kinds of music to sult the five types that the instrument is the proper of etiquette; for joyful occasions, one for the playing of love songa) for calamity, for martial pageants, can be reproduced reasonably ac for congratulations and for a welcurately with reed or string. come to guests. Music for ancestral would be useless to try to bring worship is, of course, a survival of from the East into the very earliest periods of civiliza- "Yu-t!" and "Yu-halo,”

the West the tion in the Orient.

flutes of marble, so made because they are When the Oriental worships Conless susceptible to changes of tem- fucius his music, is slow, and theperature; the "Hai-lo" or soldier's notes traverse a small compass conch finds a very excellent likeness Confucius was perhaps the great-In the European bugle. est exponent of the "Doctrine of curiously enough, although it re the Mean," and it would be mani- quires considerable experimenting festly unseemly, therefore, to wor- with tonal quality, Chinese wood- ship him with elaborate

or sum-block, the piccolo, flutesobees, the ptuous music.

British horn, bassoons, harps and Oriental Themes.

a variety of cymbals and drums will The composer desiring to secure creditably reproduce characteristic in the Oriental themes to be made street sounds of the East; the song intelligible to audiences 12,000 miles of the water carrier who balance away to the West, must go to the his waterpots upon a bamboo rod East empty-handed. He must go swung across his neck; the strange looking for everything yet looking chant of the agèd man busy with for nothing. He must have forgot his evening prayers; the whining tan the classica of the West, he melody of the street musician play- POLICE PROCEDURE renumbering of houses of the city. must have forgotten the major and ing his "ekeh" or reed instrument minor scales, particularly in China, of bamboo; the shrill cries of

And one day an Occidental ran

across him and asked him to sing Kahrim smiled with gentle gravity the song of the blue flower. Abdul

after an instant's silence, and then he, said that the song about the blue flower might only be sung al 2 o'clock upon a certain afternoon after the rice harvest. At 2 o'clock upon the afternoon after the rice harvest the Occidental would be gone from the country So he never heard the song about the blue

flower.

Chinese Notes

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Friday, 7th February.

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Canton, Yesterday. Following their reorganisation,

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Professional musicians happily numerous, travelling in groups or singly.

The individual musicians are an important part of the Oriental picture, various por tions of their persona having affixed Instruments sufficient to make a small but complete band! bells are attached. to their heads, bones to their ankles, cymbals to their knees and they carry fiddles or Autes to

are often not carefully made alof Chinese dins which gradually) play as well.

Blind musicians fa- though they are frequently mado sort themselves and fall into ar- the 30 Police Sub-Bureaux, former- variably play only secular music: of the richest materiale imaginable. rangements that can be fixed and sub-stations, have been given music is practically the only occupa The melody of Chinese tunes is verified. tion open to them and the mission never supported by the chords and schools have classes for them. Then harmonies we believe give sub there are the troubadours which stance and richness to Western Purposes Committee of the London ing items:----

It is proposed by the General give special attention to the follow- come to the villages at eventide and music.

Our chorda and intricate County Council that wherever pos- play while one of their number tells harmonies have earned for us in the sible building materials should be bookkeeping, the prohibition and The examination of new style legends of the great life of their Orient a reputation for toleration obtained from British or Imperial surveillance of workers' assemblies, countries, or the stories of famous of barbarous sound. Our progress sources. Now L.C.C. housing the banning and interception of men and women. The accompani- in scientific and other fields is point schemes for Becontree and Merton indecent literature, the protection ment is upon two or three instrued to and it is considered pitiable recommend the building of 2,400 of foreign tourists, the Investiga- ments, a sort of guitar, a fiddle, per- that we have remained musically at houses, at a cost of £1,300,000. chance a flute and any of a variety of druma. The villagers, their work finished, gather around the musicians in some convenient place and give an hour or two to the most apparent enjoyment of the incident In the cities numerous banda parade the streets and offer their services wherever there seems to be sonis thing going on. The most wrapt

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The Stam Bells cutt Instrumenta of the Orient fall into eight Classifications. Metal, stone, earthen or porcelain, silk or stringed, melon of wind, leather, bamboo and wood. In 785, in the reign of the Emperor Teh Taung, Jade instruments wore used in Indis by the Buddhists and some were taken at that time into China. In 1056 the Emperor Tu-Tsung had a flute made of a substance resembling tortoise shell: Often Eastern In struments have been made of red ivory, sometimes of the bark of beech trees or leaves. The "sung". is made of perfect reeds. There is the "sho" which traditional in- strument continuing in use to-day, There are harps and musical stones the considerable variety of bells and drums, the moon-shaped guitar, three stringed guitar, two stringed violla, clarinet, cymbals and fluten The mari

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