If this is your first page of entry please head for the start and read the articles in order! The entire field of comparative harmonious melody of music has been studied by anthropologist and musicologists since World War II. Visiting remote areas of the world with their tape machines to record original music of primitive natives before the music was contaminated and lost forever due to the western type of sophisticated and complicated civilization. The study of the relationships between western, non western and primitive music was dependent on either being recorded on disc or by tape recorders. Albeit this conformity may be traced way back to the 18th century. These non western music was not brought to the surface from the primitive condition until phonographic equipment became available. Primordial music is orally transmitted rather than in a written notation format, therefore its recitation practices of rhythm and intonation is rather difficult to transliterate (written or copied) accurately into the western notation characteristics. The most recent studies have been conducted as a race against time, particularly against a phenomenon that has become an omnipresent commodity known as the transistor radio that was about to homogenized world music. However, British Decca Record Company went on to play an influential role. | 
