List of African Musicians

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    Lastly, his tomb
    Shall list and founder in the troughs of grass
    And none shall speak his name.
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    Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.
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