. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . or the true Africandance, a dance not so much of legs and feetas of the upper half of the body, a sensual,devilish thing tolerated only by Latin-Ameri-can nriasters, there was wanted the dark in-spiration of African drums and the banjosthrump and strum. And then there was that long-drawn hu-man cry of tremendous volume, richness, andresounfl, to which no instrument within theirreach could make the faintest approach : Eh ! ]iou la belle Layotte ma niourri nocent,< )ui nocent ma mourri ! ill! the instruments silent while it rises andswells
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . or the true Africandance, a dance not so much of legs and feetas of the upper half of the body, a sensual,devilish thing tolerated only by Latin-Ameri-can nriasters, there was wanted the dark in-spiration of African drums and the banjosthrump and strum. And then there was that long-drawn hu-man cry of tremendous volume, richness, andresounfl, to which no instrument within theirreach could make the faintest approach : Eh ! ]iou la belle Layotte ma niourri nocent,< )ui nocent ma mourri ! ill! the instruments silent while it rises andswells with migiity energy and dies away dis-tantly, Yea-a-a-a-a-a ! — then the crashof savage drums, horns, and rattles — For the fair Layotte I must crazy die!Yes, crazy I must die! To all this there was sometimes added aPans-pipeof but three reeds,made from single -»—— < zm— Eh-h-h! poll laYea! For the belle - yottc/air La - yotle ma1 nioiir - IImust era no - cent,/y (lie, Oiii, Vcs. centzy mourmust (lie. THE DANCE IN PLACE CONGO. 521. joints of the common brake cane, and called But to show how lar the art of playing theby English-speaking negroes the quills. quills could be carried, if we arc not go-One may even at this day hear the black lad, ing too much aside, see this ■ (juill tune (pagesauntering home at sunset behind a few cows 529), given me by Mr. Krehbiel. musical criticthat he has found near the edge of the cane- of the New York Tribune, and got by himbrake whence he has also cut his three quills, from a gentleman who heard it in Alabama,blowing and hooting, over and o\ er,— Such was the full jjanci. All the values of Pipes Pipes i oice. H=i=t= = =t= --t=-- 5^2 THE DAXCE IX PLACE CONGO. contrast that discord can furnish must havebeen present, with whatever there is ofecstasv in maddening repetition, for of thisthe African can never have too much. And yet there was entertaining ? In the dance: There was constant,exhilarating noveUy —
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