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que gracia ! que elegancia ! all that to excite the young dancer. It is vertiginous it is unspeakable ! " The Sevillana is another thing : it is in 3-4 time (and with castanets). . . . All this becomes extraordinarily alluring with two curls, a pair of castanets and a guitar. It is impossible to write down the malaguena. It is a melopceia, however, which has a form and which always ends on the dominant, to which the guitar furnishes 3-8 time, and the spectator (when there is one) seated beside ...the guitarist, holds a cane between his legs and beats the syncopated rhythm ; the dancers themselves instinctively syncopate the measures in a thousand ways, striking with their heels an SPAIN AND MUSIC 49 unbelievable number of rhythms. . .. It is all rhythm and dance : the airs scraped out by the guitarist have no value ; besides, they cannot be heard on account of the cries of Anda ! la chi- Sailla ! que gracia ! que elegancia ! Anda ! Ol ! le ! la chiquirritita ! and the more the cries the more the dancer laughs with her mouth wide open, and turns her hips, and is mad with her body.
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