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Doppio movimento evolves into a weird fox-trot, with col legno effects and shrill pipings from the strings, a cabaret version of a totentanz.
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Doppio movimento evolves into a weird fox-trot, with col legno effects and shrill pipings from the strings, a cabaret version of a totentanz.
qms commented on the word totentanz
See dance of death, danse macabre.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totentanz
July 8, 2016
bilby commented on the word totentanz
Hottentot totentanz. I'd like to see that.
July 8, 2016
rolig commented on the word totentanz
Bilby, sorry to spoil your otherwise excellent pun, but if you had been in Southern Africa in the 16th or 17th century, you might well have seen such events, and I'm sure it you would not have wanted to:
"The Khoi (known as "Hottentots") first encountered European explorers and merchants around AD 1500. The ongoing encounters were often violent. Local population dropped when the Khoi were exposed to smallpox by Europeans. Warfare against Europeans flared when the Dutch East India Company enclosed traditional grazing land for farms. Over the following century, the Khoi were steadily driven off their land, which effectively ended their traditional life." – Wikipedia, "Khoikhoi"
July 10, 2016
bilby commented on the word totentanz
Thank you for the contribution rolig.
I may settle for a Two-Ton Ted From Teddtington totentanz.
July 11, 2016