The Science of Exotic Music
Benjamin Ives Gilman · Science · 1909
modern California Indians, although no comparative study has yet been made by a specially trained craniologist.It is not vossible i n the case of the Hawver Cave relics to prove Quaternary age for the human bones.As i n the other instances mentioned, the inference is, however, that the date of their entombment preceded the present day by centuries, if not by injllenniums.IFarchitecture is the king of the fine arts, commanding the outward services of others, music is their queen, imposing the inward laws by which all rule .themselves.The notions of harmony, pitch, scale, tonal it^ and key, applied i n fine a r t generally, have in music first become clear enough to receive names.The theory of all the arts awaits to this day the exact grasp of these ideas which the investigation of nlusical structure will some time give.