Eastern music: its past, present, and future growth

Music is the language of the soul through which it communicates and attracts itself, and it is one of the greatest pretexts for purifying souls. If we ask scholars about music, they will answer us that it is the art of composing sounds in a way that stuns the ears, or they will tell us: it is the art of sounds and their connection to melody, weight, and harmony. If we ask poets, they will tell us: A musician organizes with sounds just as a poet organizes with letters. And if we ask psycholo...