For although he /usually/ sang at night, his playing was characterized by velocity, by long-continued successions of notes and phrases, by swoops, bleats, echoes, rapidly repeated bebops--I mean rebopped bebops--by mocking mimicry of other jazzmen's styles, and by interpolations of motifs from extraneous melodies, all of which added up to the dazzling display of wit, satire, burlesque, and pathos. Further, he was as expert at issuing his improvisations from the dense brush as from the extreme treetops of the harmonic landsacpe, and there was, without doubt, as irrepressible a mockery in his personal conduct as in his music.
a. emerging
b. terminating
c. emitting
d. circulating
e. escaping
I have more seperately posted questions referring to the same passage this part is taken from. This is due tomorrow and I am having a lot of trouble pinning down an answer. Please help me better understand this.
2007-01-10
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