Show r t lt u fi A 1 r l Sl tL ver verone n one Q I I INDIAN MUSIC t i L KE CHiNESE Lieurance Believes Old Old- Oldest Oldest est American Melody Comes from Orient Evidence 1 that the Am n In- In Indian dian du is of Oriental origin IsIP Is IP plied by the Investigations of or Thur- Thur Thur 10 Lieurance the celebrated com com- com who h has s made a thorough stud of the music of tile Indian who ho comes with his I company for a concert In Oden October 19 under the auspices of the Sempre Musical society I much to show that merlean music comes coms from roin China In an article In ical Ameri Ameri- America America ca Mr is quoted as fol- fol follows fol follows lows JUST rr C CHEESE The scale from the he said Is absolutely Jie fh five tono c-tono of tIe lie Che lute lite scle In music la Is the pen pen- pentatonic pen and th the individual lual tones hae ben been named thus by the Chin Chinese ese ee themselves os Emperor prIme subject people state aC- aC af affairs fairs and picture of the In Chinatown n San Francis Fr Francisco co recently I bought t l o 0 very ery old Chinese flutes and one aIle Japanese Clute The Chinese flutes the whole tone scale while tho Jap Japanese anese flue modern In construction construction tion 1 was S made to comply with our more usual regular Of the t twenty five most examples of American Indian fluto In I m extensive 0 and 0 col- col col collection lection flutes flute more than one half one employ the v tone whole scale musicians and nd ethnologists ho have examined them will 11 ver er- er If st lUTU LS ADDED ADDID PROOF I am also finding datI daily contin contin- continued continued Mr Lieurance that that the troal ritual and ond customs of our most prImitive Indians correspond ery In In tact fact dovetail e exactly adl- adl with those thoe just no now being brought to light b by scientific devera In the of Oriental life whether er in China or India for the tho medicine bag of our trIbes an te example of whIch I acquired on my recent trip primitive most forcibly th the primi primi- tive Orient The medicine bat of v I 1 speak is a rare given me from his own collection by a very ery Interesting old chIeftain Wo also find many charm beads beade and charm In the old medicine bags of o Crow Indians |