Signor Masoni

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Excerpt from Signor Masoni: And Other Papers of the Late I. BrownAt moments when it seemed impossible to restrain a general burst of admiration, some turn in the music would be so skilfully and happily ih troduced as agam to secure unbroken silence. For instance, just before he closed, he had reached a climax of the wildest, almost diabolical glee, in which his instrument spoke, as if possessed by a demon. Bravo! Bravo! Was heard lightly Spoken, and every one was but waiting for the' closing chord to give loud utteranceto hishearty delight, but instead of the expected close, every hand was arrested, every voice silenced by an instantaneous change in time entire character of the music, which fell in the twinkling of an eye into a plain, homely, but the saddest of all American Negro melodies!My own feelings during all this may be judg ed by what I have written. It was a new experi ence, a new revelation to me in music. Moreover the old feeling that I had formerly seen Masoni, and that I ought to know him had grown stronger with eveiy note, until it was absolutely painful. And now as those sad, rude sounds from home met my ear, memory was illumined as by a ¿ash of lightning, I was earned back a dozen years, the whole history was before me, and I involuntarily uttered a loud exclamation, which called forth a volley of hisses from my neighbors.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.