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The notion that a nation's instrumental music reflects the prosody of its language has long intrigued music scholars, especially those interested in "national character" in music.On no Western music has the influence of language been stronger" . In a more succinct expression of a similar sentiment, Glinka (in Theater Arts, June 1 95 8 ) wrote: "A nation creates music, the composer only arranges it"