পাতা:রবীন্দ্র-রচনাবলী (ষোড়শ খণ্ড) - সুলভ বিশ্বভারতী.pdf/৭২৮

Sbr রবীন্দ্ৰ-রচনাবলী it. we can have sufficient freedom within the limits of our personality for the fullest self-expression. ENSTEIN : That is only possible where there is a strong artistic tradition in music to guide the people's mind. In Europe music has come too far away from popular art and popular feeling and has become something like a secret art with conventions and traditions of its own. TAGORE : So you have to bc absolutely obedicnt to his too complicated music. In India the measure of a singer's freedom is in his own creative personality. He can sing the composer's song as his own. if he has the power creatively to assert himself in his interpretation of the general law of the melody which he is given to interpret. ENSTEIN : It requires a very high standard of art fully to realize the great idea in the original music, so that one can make variations upon it. In our country the variations are often prescribed. TAGORE : If in our conduct we can follow the law of goodness, we can have real liberty of self-expression. The principle of conduct is there. but the character which makes it true and individual is our own creation. In our Inusic there is a duality of freedom and prescribed order. EINSTEIN: Are the words of a song also frce'? I mean to say, is the singer at liberty to add his own words to the song which he is singing TAGORF : Yes. In Bengal we have a kind of song- Kirtan we call it - which gives freedom to the singer to introduce parenthetical comments, phrases not in the original song. This occasions great enthusiasm, since the audience is constantly thrilled by some beautiful. Spontaneous sentinent added hy the singer. EINSri IN : Is the metrica form quite Severe ? TAGORE : Yes, quite, You cannot exceed the limits of versification : the singer in all his variations must keep the rhythm and the time, which is fixed. In European music you have a comparatívc liberty about time, but not ahol melody. But in India we have freedom of melody with no freedom of time. EINSTEIN : Can the Indian music he sung without words' Can one tintlerstand a Song without words TAGORI : Yes, we have songs with unmeaning words, sounds which just help to act as carriers of the notes. In North India usic is an independent art. not the interpretation of words and thoughts, as in Bengal. The music is very intricate and subtle and is a complete world of melody hy itself. ENSTEIN : it is not polyphonic'