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120) the uniform use of drums, and the paucity of the percussion-instruments but he will not, at first, have an ear for the wonderful spans of melody, the tremendous climaxes, in a word, the actual psychic content of our great orchestral and chamber music works. Vice versa, the Javanese deprecates in Western music its arbitrary application of tonalities, not bound to any particular time of the day ( 359, p. Thus, many Europeans will reproach Javanese music with a certain primitiveness of melody and a lack of “development”, of climax in its form but the subtle refinements of rhythm and melodic ornament, as well as the delightful shades of the kendangan-drum-playing-will elude him. He will nevertheless find that he is, at first, inclined to criticize, in the art of the foreign race, that in which this art, which is strange to him, is backward as compared to his own whereas those elements which in his own art have been more or less neglected, and for which he accordingly has a less sensitive-or, at any rate, a less developed-organ, are not, as a rule, esteemed at their proper value in the foreign art.

Anyone coming into contact with a form of music hitherto unknown to himself is confronted by considerable difficulties, even though he may be musically receptive and full of goodwill: he has to eliminate his own theoretical conceptions, his own aesthetics and axioms-if he has any-as well as his own conventional ideas- which he is sure to have.

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