Alice Corbin — a remark

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“It is extremely difficult for the trained musician to catch the intervals of Indian music, both in pitch and time.”

Recognising the difficulty of translating one musical tradition into another · Review, Tall Timber and a Loon

About Alice Corbin

Alice Corbin

16 April 1881–18 July 1949

Alice Corbin Henderson, born Alice Corbin on 16 April 1881 in St. Louis, Missouri, and dead on 18 July 1949 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, occupies an important if still insufficiently celebrated place in American literary history. She was a poet of lyrical concentration, an editor whose judgment helped define a…

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