...ili•• •• i,i-.. in hallnds by mere musical notes and signs. The odd turns made in ihe lliront, and the curious rhythmic effect produced by single...voices chiming in at different irregular intervals, sefoi almost as impossible to place on score n.1 tlio singing of birds or the tunes of the JEoliun...

...Miss McKim accompanied her father thither on a recent visit, and wrote as follows : It is difficult to express the entire character of these negro ballads...irregular intervals, seem almost as impossible to place on score as the singing of birds or the tones of an Л£оliaп harp. The airs, however, can be reached....

...visit, and wrote as follows : It is difficult to express the entire character of these negro hallads by mere musical notes and signs. The odd turns made...irregular intervals, seem almost as impossible to place on score as the singing of hirds or the tones of an /Eolian harp. The airs, however, can be reached. They...

...Miss McKim accompanied her father thither on a recent visit, and wrote as follows : It is difficult to express the entire character of these negro ballads...irregular intervals, seem almost as impossible to place on score as the singing of birds or the tones of an jEolian hsrp. The airs, however, can be reached. They...

...difficult to express the entire character of these negro balhds by mere musical notes and signs. Thi! odd -turns made in the throat, and the curious rhythmic...irregular intervals, seem almost as impossible to place on score as the singing of birds or the tones of an yEolian harp. The airs, however, can be reached. They...

...visit, and wrote as follows : It is difficult to express the entire character of these negro hallads by mere musical notes and signs. The odd turns made...voices chiming in at different irregular intervals, scem almost as impossible to place on score as the singing of hirds or the tones of an yEolian harp....

...McKim sounded a note which generations of folklorists were to echo when she despaired of being able "to express the entire character of these negro ballads...notes and signs. The odd turns made in the throat; and that curious rhythmic effect produced by single voices chiming in at different irregular intervals,...

...black music expressed despair in their attempt to notate the singing of slaves. Lucy McKim commented on the 'odd turns made in the throat and the curious...rhythmic effect produced by single voices chiming in at regular intervals . . . They seem almost impossible to place on the score' (1867). Later, when a collection...

...of the spirituals that attempted to describe some of their characteristic features: It is difficult to express the entire character of these negro ballads by mere musical notes and signs. The odd turns in the throat; and the curious rhythmic effect produced by single voices chiming in at different irregular...

...another, and turns and cadencée not in articulated notes." " It is difficult," writes Mies McKira, " to express the entire character of these negro ballads by mere musical notes and signs. The odd turna made in the throat, and the curious rhythmic effect produced by single voices chiming in at different...