There is very little written music in the East. Thee are many reasons for this. There is a system in the Sanskrit manuscripts, but there are very few who read it. The system must needs be a very complicated one, yet, that is not the hindrance. Notation would hamper the musician, and not leave him free to sing and play what his soul speaks. In India a singer, when he begins to sing, sings first the keynote. Then he repeats it over and over again so as to put himself so much in union with his instrument that his voice and the tone of the instrument may be one. Then he goes a little further and returns to the keynote. Then he goes a little further still, but always returns to the keynote.