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Bamboula

A bamboula is a type of drum made from a section of giant bamboo with skin stretched over the ends. It is also a dance accompanied by music from these drums.

Bamboula (Gottschalk)

Bamboula, Op. 2, is a fantasy composition for piano written by American composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk during a delirium of typhoid fever in the French town of Clermont-sur-l'Oise between 1844–45. Dedicated to "à sa Majesté Isabelle II, Reine des Espagnes", it is the first of the so-called set of three "Louisiana Creole pieces" that Gottschalk composed between 1844–46.

Usage examples of "bamboula".

And Pansy was right, for as she finished speaking, up the long flight of marble steps to Sizzeroo's high and private terrace, bounded Bamboula, the Imperial Su-jester, Kachewka, the King's Chief Counselor, and Waddy, the enormous and enormously clever Wizard of the Realm.

I suggest that your high and mighty absentminded Majesty retire to the palace for a nap," proposed Bamboula, sensibly enough.

Taking advantage of the short delay, he turned first to Bamboula and then to Kachewka.

But Sizzeroo was already favorably considering the idea, so Meander was dispatched to waken the Princess, and Bamboula, full of importance and jollity, began assembling the marchers.

And that signal, four loud taps on Bamboula's drum, was given just as Sizzeroo's silver sedan was borne rapidly down the terrace by the King's sixteen stalwart bearers.

The door of this great banquet room was not large enough to accommodate Terrybubble, so Speedy exacted a promise from the dinoSaur to stay exactly where he was before joining the others, then, with the most carefree feeling he had enjoyed since leaving the earth, he sank down between Waddy and Bamboula in a chair an umbrella footman ceremoniously drew out for him.

At his first frightful screech, Bamboula dropped the steering wheel and clapped both hands to his ears, and while most of the islanders flung themselves face down on the grass, Umbrella Island, with no one at the controls, dropped like a plummet into the Nonestic Ocean, where it rocked and bounced violently to and fro from its heavy impact with the waves.

Waddy, with a disgusted yell at Bamboula, threw down Terrybubble's umbrella and dashed for the royal terrace, which he reached in a surprisingly short time for an old fellow of his size and tonnage.

Quickly looking through one of the telescopes, she had seen Waddy and Speedy drifting helplessly over the Nonestic Ocean and rushing back to the throne room had sent guards scurrying in every direction for Bamboula and Kachewka.

Fortunately the arrows fell just short of the center of the island and So injured no one, and Bamboula, bouncing down the terrace like a great rubber ball, yelled wildly for the parashooters to fire.

Throwing down his silver cloth, Waddy made a little grimace, then waddled resignedly across the room to admit Sizzeroo, Bamboula, Kachewka and a dozen or more courtiers, who had just discovered the Island was moving again.

By this time, Waddy, Sizzeroo and Bamboula - for of course it was these three-came running breathlessly toward the group around the breakfast table.

Although,” she smiled, “I don’t know where we’ll find a replacement bamboula dancer as sexy as Antoine.

Out of the darkness a half-naked man leaped, wearing the beads and feathers of the bamboula dancer, prancing and gyrating among the crowd, working them up into mindless riot.

The bamboula dancer had finished the preliminaries, and now the company wanted the main event.