Music and geographical factors - 1

          A comparative study of the music of different countries will show that geographical factors have to a certain extent played a part in imparting particular traits to the music of the country.

 

 

          While countries occupying the lower lungs of the ladder in the scale of human civilisation have to their credit only folk music and folk dance, civilised countries have, in addition, developed art music and art dance.

 

The political and economic conditions of the people of a country are truly mirrored in their national music.

 

 

          In the continents of Asia and Europe, it will be found that the countries around the centre have a glorious musical heritage. Germany and Italy have to their credit a very large number of composers who have shed lustre on European music. The same is the case with India. Indians are perhaps the oldest musical people to inhabit this world. The Vedic hymns constitute the earliest hymnal music of humanity. Music has always been given an honoured place in the scheme of life of the nation in India.