 ... too high), or hitting some other note that chords, so as to produce the effect of a marvellous complication and variety, and yet with the most perfect time, and rarely with any discord.  Slave Songs of the United States - Page vby William Francis Allen - 1867 - 115 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1862 - 580 pages
...whims, and begin when they please, and leave off where they please, striking an octave above or below, or hitting some other note that chords so as to produce...complication and variety, and yet with the most perfect tone and rarely with any discord. And what make* it all the harder to unravel a thread of melody out... | |
 | Folklore - 1895 - 146 pages
...the " basers " themselves seem to follow their own whims, beginning when they please and leaving off when they please, striking an octave above or below...hitting some other note that chords, so as to produce Appendix. 109 the effect of a marvellous complication and variety, and yet with the most perfect time,... | |
 | Henry Edward Krehbiel - African American dance - 1914 - 198 pages
...the "basers" themselves seem to follow their own whims, beginning when they please and leaving off when they please, striking an octave above or below (in case they have pitched the tune too high), or hitting some other note that chords, so as to produce the effect of a marvellous complication... | |
 | Daniel Gregory Mason - Music - 1915 - 584 pages
...the "basers" themselves seem to follow their own whims, beginning when they please and leaving off when they please, striking an octave above or below (in case they have pitched the tune too high), or hitting some other note that "chords," so as to produce the effect of a marvellous complication... | |
 | James Wentworth Leigh - African Americans - 1921 - 286 pages
...refrain. The basers seem often to follow their own whims, beginning when they please and leaving off when they please, striking an octave above or below (in case they have pitched the tune too high or too low), or hitting some other note that chords, so as to produce the effect of a marvellous... | |
 | Marshall Winslow Stearns - Music - 1970 - 420 pages
...the 'basers' themselves seem to follow their own whims, beginning when they please and leaving off when they please, striking an octave above or below...note that chords, so as to produce the effect of a marvelous complication and variety, and yet with the most perfect time, and rarely with any discord... | |
 | William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, Lucy McKim Garrison - Music - 1995 - 196 pages
...leaving off when they please, striking an octave ahove or helow (in case they have pitched the tnne too low or too high), or hitting some other note that chords, so as to prodace the effect of a marvellons complication and variety, and yet with the most perfect time, anl... | |
 | Gad J. Heuman, James Walvin - Slavery - 2003 - 824 pages
...basers 'seem to follow their own whims, beginning when they please and leaving off when they please ... or hitting some other note that chords, so as to produce the effect of a marvellous complication and variety'.68 To the whites who heard him, the St Helena song leader's shrill, cracked notes may have... | |
 | Dena J. Epstein - Music - 2003 - 468 pages
...refrain. The basers seem often to follow their own whims, beginning when they please and leaving off when they please, striking an octave above or below (in case they have pitched the tune too high or too low), or hitting some other note that chords, so as to produce the effect of a marvellous... | |
 | Gage Averill - Music - 2003 - 249 pages
...whims, beginning when they please and leaving off when the please, striking an octave above or below ... or hitting some other note that chords, so as to produce the effect of a marvelous complication and variety, and yet with the most perfect time, and rarely with any discord.16... | |
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