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Nay, I have been told that in the parts over sea, towards the North and West, he is worshipped, just as at Eleusis, with pipes and timbrels and brazen cymbals and all excess of music; and there they dance in his service and suffer the ecstasies of the Maenads and Corybants in the Dionysiac revel. But this I find quaint to be believed."
Mr. James Gollop had to fight an impulse to sing, dance, shout and altogether conduct himself with the improprieties that are chronicled against one King David, who played on timbrels and recklessly jazzed himself out of his job. Unlike King David, he came to his senses in time to commune with himself and to admonish himself. "Steady, Jimmy! Steady! Whoa there! Back up! Ca'm yourself!
"And Miriam the prophetess took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances; and Miriam answered them, 'Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously." At a later period, in Jewish as in Greek history, choral exercises became a profession, and the choir constituted a detached portion of men and women.
Through the whole Old Testament runs the longing that God would 'awake' to smite evil. The tragedy of the drowned hosts in the Red Sea, and Miriam and her maidens standing with their timbrels and shrill song of triumph on the bank, is a prophecy of what shall be.
Ay, there it was indeed, Sir, and as his Highness was taking a Survey of this lower World through a long Perspective, Sir, he saw you and your Daughter and Neice, and from that very moment fell most desperately in love. But hark, the sound of Timbrels, Kettle-Drums and Trumpets. The Emperor, Sir, is on his way, prepare for his Reception. Doct. Har.
Then Judith sang this song unto God saying: Begin ye in timbrels, sing ye to the Lord in cymbals, mannerly sing to him a new psalm. Fully joy ye, and inwardly call ye his name, and so forth. And for this great miracle and victory all the people came to Jerusalem for to give laud, honor, and worship unto our Lord God.
They liked also to hear of the instruments played upon before the Lord by those that went ahead of the Ark; harps, psalteries, and timbrels; cornets, cymbals, and instruments made of fir-wood.
And, as they passed, even with all the activity of their gestures, they made no sound; neither did the musicians, whereof there was a great band playing upon harps and psalteries, and timbrels and cornets, break, in the slightest degree, the almighty silence.
Shrieks rent the air when 'Boots' left Manila." "Feminine shrieks?" "Exclusively. The men were glad enough. He has three months' leave this winter, so you'll see him soon." She thanked him mockingly for the promise, watching him from amused eyes. After a moment she said: "I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels?
If there is a single modern orchestral work that can be compared to either of the two great ballets of Strawinsky for rhythmical vitality, it is "Daphnis et Chloé," with its flaming dionysiac pulses, its "pipes and timbrels," its wild ecstasy. The same delicate clockwork mechanism characterizes "L'Heure espagnol," his opera bouffe, that characterizes "Petruchka" and "Le Rossignol."
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