পাতা:রবীন্দ্র-রচনাবলী (ষোড়শ খণ্ড) - সুলভ বিশ্বভারতী.pdf/৭২০

a>の রবীন্দ্ৰ-রচনাবলী it was strange-imitative-I did not like it. But I said to myself, 'If so many people think it is beautiful, and such intelligent people, I will try to understand. And so I studied the Western music and l have found much to admire in it. But your people will not study our music. When they come to India and do not like it at once they will not try to understand. I could readily believe that the Americans with money enough to travel to India would not be the ones to stop and study the music or art of Bengal long and faithfully. Our intolerance, where it existed in this connection, might readily be the result of the pressure of our practical occidental lives upon us. or of our breathless haste. Just why English musicians should not be interested in Indian music I do not know. When you make a poem and music for it do you make the verthal and musical melodies together ? Or does the music come first. So that you fit Words to it, or the words. So that you fit music to them' Sometimes make the words first and then put (nusic with then later. Sometimes I make a melody first and then put words with it. Sometimes the music is subordinated to the words. Sometimes the words are subordinated to music. How does this method affect your rhythms ? "They are always changed. Anything new added always changes what was before. It is like color added to the lines of a picture. When you add melody to words the rhythm is changed. Yet you do not change the emotional key- a love song remains in the Same mood, or a lament for a dead friend retains the spirit of sorrow even when the new element is added.' . Dr. Tagore gave assent all once. The new thing that is added- it is not alien, he said. "You believe, then, that cither in a poem or in a song, rhythm always means Something. is always intimately related to the emotion expressed ? Dr. Tagore secmed to think that rhythm would have no value otherwise. Where'. I asked him. 'do thc poets of your country ind their rhythms ? Do they get them out of rhetorics He laughed gently and shook his head. Before me, he said. "they went much to the rhetorics. , have set then free. Where do your own rhythms come from . From the subconscious' he said. like a spring bubbling out of the earth, Will you tell me something of the kinds of rhythm you have in your