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5594. MUSIC, Negroes and.—
In music
the blacks are more generally gifted than the
whites, with accurate ears for tune and time,
and they have been found capable of imagining
a small catch. [350]
Whether they will be
equal to the composition of a more extensive
run of melody, or of complicated harmony, is
yet to be proved.—
Notes on Virginia. Washington ed. viii, 383.
Ford ed., iii, 246.
(1782)
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