One season of his life was spent in trying to record the songs of the magpie robin. He commented on this being another variation on 'BACH'. One of the Narikorava chants descends a semitone at a time, down three semitones ('C B Bflat A'). So the theme is on the sequence of notes 'B flat', 'A', 'C' and 'B'. In one classical style of music notation, the letter name 'B' stood for what we now call 'B flat', and 'H' stood for what we now call 'B'. ThereĪre some compositions that may be regarded as variations on the theme 'BACH'. Some of his creative thoughts and work in music that may not have been published include the following. He put some of the Narikorava chants into staff notation. Research in music and archaeology resulted in work on stringed instruments of the ancient Tamil Country and musical instruments from Pallava sculptures. This included his work on style as information in Karnatic music computer recognition and transliteration of mridangam mnemonics computer recognition of hand-printed Tamil musical notation and computer translation of South Indian music into staff notation. His work in information theory and computers intersected with his interest in music. He helped bring out music books - the second edition of the Nativity of Christ and the second volume of the book of Christian lyrics by A. Was his view that a musician should be able to play different types of musical instruments (string, wind, percussion), and different music styles (Western, Carnatic)]. One of the motivations for his learning to play the mridangam Tamil carols sung at the Bishop Heber carol service. He learnt to play the mridangam, and also encouraged his colleagues and others to learn.

He participated in the choir at the worship services in the Bishop Heber Chapel and in the Anderson Hall. His music has a deep grounding and root in his faith. He possibly has not analysed the music generated by migrating butterflies, if such music does exist, but has succeeded in intersecting his interest in music with a large number of his other areas of interest. Gift Siromoney's work in music is almost as varied as all his other interests and work in different fields.

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