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Arabian Dance.
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From F. David's Le Desert.
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This dance, which is perhaps more African than Asiatic, has appeared in various collections of Arabian music, but is best known in
its setting as part of Felicien David's Le Desert, a symphonic poem, produced in 1S14, in which the oomposer introduced a number of
Arabian tunes obtained by himself in the East. This interesting and highly original French work is now very seldom produced, at least in
Britain, but its great merits as a glowing musical picture of Arabian life in the desert, entitle it to be kept more prominently before the
public.
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