The National Music Of The World

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	22 National Music of the World.
	take,³ that has ever been conversant with that delectable city, ancient or modern. Here is the tune as noted by Eastern travellers, which it will be seen is as tame, when compared with the ' Malbrouk' we are accustomed to, as if some lotos or opium eater, having got hold of a clear and easy melody, was half consciously drawling it out before dying away in his trance. Those who paid attention to the performances of the band of the Pacha of Egypt which visited London in 1862 might, I think, detect in the midst of the strange barbaric 'jargoning,' which passed with them for harmony, fragments of Western melody imperfectly caught, and to which the impure note, ^a It may be noted, however, among the coincidences which crowd on the collector at every step taken by him, that a curious similarity exists between the first four bars of ' Mai-, brouk' and those of ' Callino Casturame' arranged by AVil-liam Byrd. (Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Time, p. 793). This, then, may have been one of the melodies which have grown into their present shape gradually.