Klarinet Archive - Posting 000843.txt from 2004/01

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: [kl] Several faces of one sound
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 12:03:57 -0500

---from Richard Burton's notes to "The Arabian Nights" when discussing
the braying of a mule:

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["Hauk! Hauk!"] "Heehaw!" as we should say. The Bres. edition makes
the cat cry "Nauh! Nauh!" and the ass-colt cry "Manu! Manu!" I leave
these onomatopoeics as they are in Arabic; they are curious, showing the
unity in variety of hearing inarticuate sounds. The bird which is
called "Whip poor Will" in the U.S. is known to the Brazilians as "Joam
corta pao" (John cut wood), so differently do they hear the same notes.

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