Volume I Part 21 (1/2)
I bear witness that Mohammed is the Prophet of God!
Come to Prayer!
Come to Prayer!
Come unto Salvation!
God is Great!
God is Great!
There is no other God but God!”
And Omar wept and all the people with him
This is an outline I'd like to have the et it
L H
TO H E KREHBIEL
NEW ORLEANS, 1883
I'hted with that music that I don't knohat to do
First, I went toit ”It is very queer,” he said; ”but it see” Then I took it to a piano-player, and he played it for ives the best idea of the sound of a tenor voice--and he played it exquisitely, beautifully Those arabesques about the name of Allah are simply divine! I noticed the difference clearly The second version see never to be finished so long as waves sing and winds call, and worlds circle in space So I thought of Edwin Arnold's lines:--
”Suns that burn till day has flown, Stars that are by night restored, _Are thy dervishes_, O Lord, _Wheeling_ round thy golden throne!”
I believe I'll use both songs The suspended character of the second has a great and pathetic poetry in it Please tell ht to have--being a woolly-headed Abyssinian I suppose I'll have tothose flourishes about the name of the Eternal
Next week I'll send you selections of Provencal and other music which I believe are new My library is very fine I have a collection worth a great deal of money which you would like to see
If you ever come down here, you could stay with me nicely, and have a pleasant artistic time
LAFCADIO HEARN
TO HE KREHBIEL
NEW ORLEANS, October, 1883
MY DEAR KREHBIEL,--I have been too sick with a strangling cold to write as I had wished, or to copy for you so for which I had already obtained theto ask another favour
I hope you can find time to copy separately for me the Arabic words of the _Adzan_: I prefer Villoteau As for Koran-reading, it would delight ive me the number of the _sura_, or chapter, froressing: the second part being co it into four Sections But I do not feel quite so hopeful now as I did before Magazine-writing is awful labour Six weeks at least are required to prepare an article, and then the probability is that the es: e nothing; but they keep an article over for twelve months andthat if ht follow it up with an article on Arabic enerally: the open letter department of _Scribner's_ pays well, and the Harpers pay even better I would like to see you with a series, which could afterward be united into a voluestion
I will notin ”Blal:” I want to leave that wholly to you I feel even guilty for borrowing your pithy and forcible observation upon the _cantillado_
If you have a chance to visit some of your public libraries, please see whether they have Maisonneuve's superb series: ”Les Litteratures populaires de toutes les nations” I have fourteen volumes of it, rich in musical oddities If they have it not, I will send you extracts from time to time Also see if they have _Melusine_: my volume of it (1878) contains the music of a Greek dance, older than the friezes of the Parthenon Of course, if you can see thenorarossly offended a Creole musician the other day He denied _in toto_ the African sense of melody ”But,” said I, ”did you not tellto i on your flute?” ”I did,” he replied, ”but not because it pleased me--only because I was curious to learn why I could not imitate it: it still baffles me, but it is nevertheless an abomination to my ear!” ”Nay!”