Music

Music and Musical Instruments of Gor:

Czehar:    eight strings, like a large flat oblong box; held across the lap when sitting, is played with a horn pick. Nomads of Gor pg 153
Drum of Red Hunters:     large, heavy handled, disk-like. Beasts of Gor pg 261 - 262

• frame of wood
• cover of tabuk hide
• drum struck on frame with stick
• odd resonance

Kalika:     six strings, is flat-bridged, its strings are adjusted by small wooden cranks, sound box is hemospheric, neck rather long, is plucked. Nomads of Gor pg 153
Kaska:   small hand drum.  Nomads of Gor pg 153
Tabor:   drum, drumhead usually made of verr skin.  Vagabonds of Gor pg 36

• as most often are wineskins

Song of Tarl of Bristol    Raiders of Gor pg 225

I sing the seige of Ar

of gleaming Ar.
I sing the spears and walls of Ar

of Glorious Ar.
In the long years past of the siege of the city

the siege of Ar
of her spires and towers
of undaunted Ar
Glorious Ar

I sing.
I sing of dark-haired Talena
of the rage of Marlenus

Ubar of Ar
Glorious Ar.
And of he I sing

whose hair was like a larl from the sun
of he who came once to the walls of Ar

Glorious Ar
he called Tarl of Bristol.

"The Ten Maids of Hammerfest:"   river song of pirates and brawles.  Guardsman of Gor pg 93
"Block Melodies:" melodies commonly used in slave markets in the display of merchandise Vagabonds of Gor pg 37
"Hope of Tina:"    Vagabonds of Gor pg 38

• melody of Cos (pg 37)
• an expression of the yearning, or hope, of a young girl that she may be so beautiful, and so feminine, and marvelous, that she will prove acceptable as a slave

"Blue Sky Song" (Tuckuk): "though I die, yet there will be the bosk, the grass and sky." Nomads of Gor pg 263
"Caravans of Tor:" love song    Assassin of Gor pg 264