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Book 1. (2 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
11	84	There was a sudden bright clash of the finger cymbals, and, to the music of the nearby tent, Talena, daughter of the Ubar of Ar, began to dance for me.
15	149	"To some men this game is music and women.

Book 2. (8 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
6	73	Then, to the festive music of flutes and drums, the girl kneels.
6	75	The music grows more intense, mounting to an overpowering, barbaric crescendo, which stops suddenly, abruptly.
6	98	The music begins again.
6	101	Then, to the barbaric, intoxicating music of the flute and drums, she dances for her captor, the bells on her ankles marking each of her movements, the movements of a girl stolen from her home, who must now live to please the bold stranger whose binding fiber she had felt, whose collar...
12	60	I love to hear the sudden glad music of a woman's laughter, that laughter that so delights a man, that acts on his senses like Ka-la-na wine.
24	17	Theirs, like the Caste of Poets, had been a caste regarded by the sober masks of Tharna as not belonging in a city of serious and dedicated folk, for music, like paga and song, can set men's hearts aflame, and when men's hearts are aflame it is not easy to know where the flame may spre...
24	29	When I had entered the music had briefly stopped but now Kron clapped his hands twice and the musicians turned to their instruments.
25	10	His sword too was free of its sheath and we rushed on one another like larls in the Voltai, our weapons meeting with a sharp, free clash of sound, the trembling brilliant ring of well-tempered blades, each tone ringing in the clear, glittering music of swordplay.

Book 3. (5 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
10	15	For example, does a Priest-King have the same qualitative experience that I do when we are confronted by the same scent? I am inclined to doubt it, for their music, which consists of rhapsodies of odors produced by instruments constructed for this purpose, and often played by Priest-Ki...
27	74	The antennae of the thousand Priest-Kings seemed almost motionless so intent were they on the beauties of the music.
27	110	But I now understood as I observed the slight, almost enraptured tremor of their antennae responding to the scent-music of the musicians that this was not a simple demonstration of their patience but a time of exaltation for them, of gathering, of bringing the Nest togeth...
27	124	Together, in silence to human ears but to the swelling intensities of scent-music, in stately, stalking procession the two Priest-Kings approached the Mother, and I saw Misk, first, dip his mouth to the great golden bowl on its tripod and then approach her.
27	130	The scent-music suddenly stopped and the Priest-Kings seemed to rustle as though an unseen wind had suddenly stirred the leaves of autumn and I heard even the surprised jangling of those tiny metal tools.

Book 4. (10 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
9	273	I was puzzled at this, for throughout much of the evening there had been entertainment, the jugglers, the acrobats, the fellow who swallowed fire to music, the magician, the man with the dancing sleen.
9	298	To the barbaric music they danced.
9	357	The girl looked at him gratefully and she, with the others, rose to her feet and to the astounding barbarity of the music performed the savage love dances of the Kassars, the Paravaci, the Kataii, the Tuchuks.
12	214	One of the instruments was an eight-stringed czehar, rather like a large flat oblong box; it is held across the lap when sitting cross-legged and is played with a horn pick; the other was the kalika, a six-stringed instrument; it, like the czehar, is flat-bridged and its strings are adjusted by mean...
12	220	Lastly it might be mentioned, thinking it is of some interest, musicians on Gor are never enslaved; they may, of course, be exiled, tortured, slain and such; it is said, perhaps truly, that he who makes music must, like the tarn and the Vosk gull, be free.
12	393	To the music, beautifully, it seemed the frightened figure ran first here and then there, occasionally avoiding imaginary objects or throwing up her arms, ran as though through the crowds of a burning city—alone, yet somehow suggesting the presence about her of hunted others.
12	409	Then, to the music, the girl seemed to twist and turn and move away from him, as he played out the chain, until she stood wretched some twenty feet from him at the chain's length.
12	413	The music had stopped.
12	414	Then with a suddenness that almost made me jump and the crowd cry out with delight the music began again but this time as a barbaric cry of rebellion and rage and the wench from Port Kar was suddenly a chained she-larl biting and tearing at the chain and she had cast her black robes fr...
22	117	There were musicians present and they, to the best of their ability under the circumstances, attempted to provide music for the feast.

Book 5. (15 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
6	123	Obediently the music began again, and again the girls moved to the music, though I could see they did so poorly now, and were frightened.
2	64	The three musicians bent to their instruments, and, in a moment, there were again the sounds of a paga tavern, the sounds of talk, of barbaric music, of pouring paga, the clink of bowls, the rustle of bells on the ankles of slave girls.
9	71	I heard the music of a lute from somewhere.
9	122	I listened to the music of the lute, and was disturbed.
15	3	The music was wild, a melody of the delta of the Vosk.
15	24	The music became more wild.
15	26	The music now became a moan of surrender, and the girl was on her knees, her head down, her hands on the ankle of the Warrior, his sandal lost in the unbound darkness of her hair, her lips to his foot.
15	29	In the next phases of the dance the girl knows herself the Warrior's, and endeavors to please him, but he is difficult to move, and her efforts, with the music, become ever more frenzied and desperate.
15	60	Then, after this instant of silence under the torches, the music struck the final note, with a mighty and jarring clash of cymbals, and the Warrior had lowered her to the furs and her lips, arms about his neck, sought his with eagerness.
15	134	To one side there was a set of mats for musicians, who almost invariably were present at the sessions, for even the exercises of the girls, which were carefully selected and frequently performed, are done to music; against one wall were several bars, also used in exercise...
15	384	Ho-Tu was fond of the music of the kalika, a six-stringed, plucked instrument, with a hemispheric sound box and long neck.
15	386	Elizabeth, Virginia and Phyllis had been shown its rudiments, as well as something about the lyre, but they had not been expected to become proficient, nor were they given the time to become so; if their master, at a later date, after their sale, wished his girls to possess these particular attribut...
15	387	The slave girl sitting on the furs, for the kalika is played either sitting or standing, bent over her instrument, her hair falling over the neck of it, lost in her music, a gentle, slow melody, rather sad.
19	133	A girl, wild, clad only in a brief tunic of gray toweling, as though fleeing, ran to the surface of the block, weeping, circling it, her hands outstretched to the crowd; this was done to the music of the musicians; she turned this way and that, acting the frantic role of ...
24	110	Only the day before their purple cloaks and helmets had been taken from them before the great gate; their swords had been broken and they had been conducted by common Warriors, to the music of flute girls, a pasang beyond the walls of Ar, and ordered from her environs.

Book 6. (14 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
5	182	Suddenly, before me, hands over her head, swaying to the music, I saw the dark-haired, lithe girl, she with such marvelous, slender legs in the brief rence skirt; her ankles were so close together that they might have been chained; and then she put her wrists together back to back over...
5	185	Then another girl, the tall, blond girl, she who had held the coil of marsh vine, stood before me, moving with excruciating slowness, as though the music could be reflected only from moment to moment, in her breathing, in the beating of the heart.
5	187	She, like the other, spit then in my face and turned away, now moving fully, enveloped in the music's flame.
5	197	The girls whirled and writhed, and the crowd clapped and shouted, and the music grew ever more wild, barbaric and fantastic.
5	208	Torrents of barbaric music swept about us, and there was the clapping and the shouting, and the turning, and the twisting and swirling of rence girls, the passion of the dance burning in their bodies.
5	218	Outside I could hear the music, the cries and clapping, the shouts of the rence girls dancing under the moons of Gor.
5	241	Just then, from outside, there was the wild, high, terrified scream of a girl, and suddenly the music stopped.
9	143	Could not Port Kar be attacked from the sea? The music of the musicians began to beat in my blood, reeling there.
9	412	The music grew more wild.
9	414	"Be kind to Midice!" The music grew even more wild.
14	91	Then, rather bravely, the music drifting over the water, our oars at only half of maximum beat, we moved across the gleaming waters toward the large fleet.
14	113	Over the faint music coming from the distant ships, now approaching, I could hear her war trumpets and, with the glass, observe her flags.
15	399	Then, as though in terror and fury, as though she now first understood herself in the snares of a slave, she leaped to her feet, fighting, to the music, the thongs.
15	410	"Yes," cried the girl, "slave!" The music finished with a clash.

Book 7. (12 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
15	1291	How pleased I was in my power! As the music changed so, too, did the dancer, and she became as one with the music, a frightened girl, new to the collar, a timid girl, delicate and submissive, a lonely slave, yearning for her master, a drunken wench, rejecting her slavery,...
1	54	One of my instructors, from whom I had won an extension in the afternoon, did not recognize me the same evening when he sat some rows behind me at a chamber-music performance at the Lincoln Center.
8	304	She danced slowly, exquisitely, to the music of primitive instruments.
12	94	We heard music in the distance, trumpets, drums and cymbals.
12	99	The music was coming closer.
12	241	Then we heard more music from outside, as more musicians, near the end of the retinue, approached.
15	203	I would lie there and, through the crack beneath the heavy plank door, hear the music, the laughing, protesting screams of the girls, the laughter, the shouts of satisfaction, of victory of the men.
15	1159	The music of those of the caste of musicians was heady, like the wine.
15	1262	The music was raw, melodious, deeply sensual.
15	1284	I threw back my head and the bells flashed at my ankles and wrists, and in my body the music, in its bright flames, burned.
15	1294	Then, as the music struck towards its swirling peaks I unaccountably, boldly, for no reason I understood, faced Rask of Treve, and before him, my master, I danced.
15	1309	When the music finished, I fell to my knees, insolently, before him, my head to the ground.

Book 8. (4 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
3	149	The music of the musicians was quite good.
3	193	There, lost to the bustle in the tavern, oblivious to the music, sat two men across a board of one hundred red and yellow squares, playing Kaissa, the game.
3	267	The music became louder.
14	325	Then, with music and ceremony, he would be presented before the High Council of Tyros.

Book 9. (2 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	190	I supposed, to one versed in music, their soprano voices were very beautiful.
22	201	She is an instrument of passion on which he plays, delighting himself with the music of her expressions, her movements, her cries, even the wild, unrestrainable odors of her collared slave body.

Book 10. (28 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	99	The dancer was now moving slowly to the music.
1	115	Then, the music suddenly silent, she was absolutely still.
1	116	Her left hand was at her thigh; her right high above her head; her eyes were on her hip; frozen into a hip sway; then there was again a bright, clear flash of the finger cymbals, and the music began again, and again she moved, helpless on the pole.
1	168	The hips of the dancer now moved, seemingly in isolation from the rest of her body, though her wrists and hands, ever so slightly, moved to the music.
1	508	Then with my right hand, the Tuchuk quiva in it, while still holding her with my left, as she continued to move to the music, I, behind her back, cut the halter she wore from her.
1	511	Never in all this, of course, had she lost the music in her body.
1	646	The girl now knelt before me, her body obedient still, trembling, throbbing, to the melodious, sensual command of the music.
1	660	The music, which had stopped, began again.
1	664	The girl now, on her belly, yet subtly to the music, crawled toward us, lifted her hand piteously to us.
1	682	The dancer now lay on her back and the music was visible in her breathing, and in small movements of her head, and hands.
1	689	Four times said I "No," each time my command forcing her head back, her body bent, to the floor, and each time, again, to the music, she lifted her body.
1	694	Still did she move to the music, which had not yet released her.
1	711	I heard a swirl of music.
1	760	Their music was a rhapsody of odors, many of which were, to human olfactory organs, not even pleasant.
1	831	She swayed to the music before me.
1	835	Then she moaned and turned away, and, as the music swirled to its maddened, frenzied climax, she spun, whirling, in a jangle of bells and clashing barbaric ornaments before the guests of Samos.
1	836	Then, as the music suddenly stopped, she fell to the floor, helpless, vulnerable, a female slave.
2	201	Then, with a rustle of the chain, and the tiny music of her bells, she turned swiftly, following her master.
4	553	She is not permitted merely to excite, and flee away; when, at the conclusion of the swirling music, she flings herself to the floor at the mercy of free men, her dance is but half finished; she has yet to pay the price of her beauty.
5	17	The music began.
5	218	She bent down, her leg extended and, moving it, flexing it, slowly, to the music, from her knee to the thigh, caressed it.
5	559	Alyena threw herself to the floor before him, moving to the music.
5	679	To the music she unhooked her slave halter of yellow silk and, as though contemptuously, discarded it.
5	810	Alyena now to a swirl of music spun before us, swept helpless with it, bangles clashing, to its climax.
5	811	Then she stopped, marvelously, motionlessly, as the music was silent, her head back, her arms high, her body covered with sweat, and then, to the last swirl of the barbaric melody, fell to the floor at the feet of Ibn Saran.
13	227	We heard music.
17	158	music he will make among the stones and silence.
24	689	Most masters, I have observed, incidentally, at least private masters, take great delight in listening to their female slaves; they love to hear them speak; indeed, I think that one of the pleasures of the mastery is listening to a sensitive, lovely, highly intelligent woman talk, delightfully, inti...

Book 11. (13 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
4	129	The sexuality, qualities and capacities, and skills, of a slave girl, not a free woman, are discussed on Gor with the same openness that men on Earth might bring to the discussion of paintings and music, and that Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century might have brought to the discussion...
4	448	Yet theirs was a music of bondage, one which, in its tiny, delicious sounds, rustling, whispered, "Kajira.
12	6	The sensuous music of Turia filled the room.
12	97	The music swirled about me.
12	382	I heard the musicians playing the music of Gor.
12	406	The music had stopped.
12	420	For the music we had heard nothing.
13	428	To make matters worse the women in the tiers, because of the bidding, now saw me, and understood me, as a girl destined for the taverns, hot, spiced meat, delicious to men, a delectable accompaniment, like the music, to the tawny fire of paga.
14	7	Yet she subtly danced, controlled by the music of a single flute.
14	164	The music swirled loudly.
14	187	The music, for a moment stopped.
14	192	Their leader, without helmet, but in cloak and medallion, indicated that the music should continue.
27	73	Before the table, to the music of some four musicians, Helen, commanded, danced before a Gorean master.

Book 13. (4 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
8	127	Each of these, with the music and followed by its dance expression, was very well done.
32	406	The contempt in which the exotic dancer on Earth is held, despite the richness of her music and beauty, is a symptom of this pathology.
47	75	Those inside the stockade, given their music and dancing, would not hear it.
51	198	I think there is no music more pleasing to a man's ears than the moans of a yielding slave girl.

Book 14. (5 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
22	394	There was a swirl of music and a beating on the drum, and then a pause, and then began, with the czehar prominent, the strains of a slow Gorean melody.
22	430	But a moment after this the Lady Florence stood up and signaled to the musicians to discontinue, for the time, the music.
22	556	The music began to swirl and flame.
22	565	The music became ever more wild and primitive.
22	570	The music suddenly stopped and Melpomene fell to her knees, putting her head to my feet.

Book 15. (9 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
23	157	"music," then he called, "and a new dancer, and wenches to serve! Let the feast continue!" The musicians then again began to play, the sensuous, melodious, exciting, wild music of Gor.
1	51	* * * * I considered the belly and hips of the dancing girl as she thrust them toward me, undulatingly, as the music pounded in the tavern.
1	126	The dancer now, as the music was mounting in crescendo, was again approaching me.
1	131	The music swirled to its climax and, as it ended, she straightened her body and then, from her knees, lowered herself to her right hip and, extending her right arm to me, lay before me, submitted, her head to the floor.
8	101	"music!" he called.
23	21	Such a dance usually proceeds in clearly defined phrases, evident not merely in the expressions and movements of the girl but in the nature of the accompanying music.
23	72	The music ended with a swirl of sound and the girl, with a jangle of bells, lay before the table of Policrates, whimpering, her hand extended.
23	170	This, conjoined with the music, and her beauty, and the obvious symbolism of her beauty beneath total male discipline, can be extremely, powerfully erotic.
23	171	In an elegant, civilized context, one of beauty and music, it makes clear and bespeaks the raw and essential primitives of the ancient, genetic, biological sexual relationship of men and women, the theme of dominance and submission, that man is master by blood and woman is slave by bir...

Book 16. (20 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
10	124	To the music of the musicians, near the iron door, they performed a most decorous dance, slowly and gracefully lifting their arms and turning, facing first one side and then the other.
20	75	There were seven musicians, who furnished the music for the dancers, a czehar player, their leader, two kalika players, three flutists and a kaska player.
20	82	There was then a swirl of music and the dancers had finished.
20	86	Then, smiling, to another swirl of music, they turned and hurried from the room, going to the kitchen, where their master would be waiting for them.
20	271	They, too, serving in their chains, were a part of the entertainment, as much as the music of Tasdron's musicians in the background.
20	443	I listened to the unobtrusive music of the musicians, who were sitting on a rug a few feet in front of, and to the left of, the table.
20	528	The girl, then, to the music, moved gracefully, turning, her hands held out, about the table, displaying herself and her garments for us.
20	532	Then, gracefully and decisively, to the music, she unbound her hair.
20	536	She then, reaching to the left side, beneath her arm, of what seemed to be a white sheath gown, undid a fastening, and then others, at the side of her body, her waist, her thigh, and knee, and then, gracefully, the Gorean music unobtrusive but melodious in the background, removed the g...
20	558	Then, putting her hands back, swiftly and smoothly, beautifully, to the music, without rising, she changed her position on the tiles.
20	662	The girl then, to the music, put back her head and put her hands behind her back, and, reaching high behind her back, this lifting her breasts beautifully, strained for a moment, and then, one by one, twisting slightly, undid the hooks on the confining, tight silk.
20	666	She then reached to the white scarf on her throat and, beautifully, to the music, undid it one turn.
20	667	She then, to the music, drew it beautifully, slowly, from her throat, and, gracefully, dropped it to one side.
20	674	Slowly and beautifully then, to the music, with both hands, she unwound the silk, and then dropped it to the tiles.
20	922	It is at this moment that the music enters a different melodic phase, one less physical and frenzied, one almost lyrical in its poignancy.
20	937	The next phase of the music begins at this point.
20	1018	The music now, pounding and throbbing, mounted headily toward the climax of the Sa-eela.
20	1035	The music swirled to its climax and Peggy, turning, flung herself to her back on the tiles before Callimachus of Port Cos.
20	1036	As the music struck its last, rousing note, she arched her back, and flexed her legs, and looked back at him, her right arm extended piteously back towards him.
20	1146	He would draw forth from her by his skills rhapsodies of movements, cries, moans, utterances and admissions, a music to the ears of both the conquering master and the delicious, yielding slave, she who finds, and can find, her most glorious victory only in her most complete and devasta...

Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
16	257	Verbal formulas, even vacuous ones, like music or medicine, I knew, might have empirical effects.

Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
3	304	The music stopped.

Book 19. (11 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
6	643	"Surely you heard the music which was coming from within?" he asked.
6	645	It would not be easy to forget that music, so melodious, so exciting and sensual.
8	211	"This may be done to music," said Hermidorus, "and, as you know, there are many versions to the post dance, or pole dance, singly, or with more than one girl, with or without bonds, and so on, but here we are using it merely as a training exercise".
9	68	In a context of this sort, presumably not in a tavern, and without music, the girl is expected to move, writhe and twist seductively before strong men.
14	33	I heard music from the distance, from somewhere among the tents, where perhaps girls danced to please masters.
14	43	I heard the music in the distance.
26	417	Then the music began.
26	424	I do not know how long the music lasted, perhaps only about four or five Ehn.
28	26	There is a saying to the effect that he who makes music must, like the tarn and the Vosk gull, be free.
29	100	I must be in the background, almost like background music, in a situation of this sort, unless summoned forth.
35	13	On this same stair, and on the floor below, and on the surface of the dais itself, before the long, low, small table, I had been ordered to writhe, to the music.

Book 20. (11 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	511	The music stopped.
1	736	She drew the hair from her mouth, drawing some of it, in loosening it, deeply back between her teeth, with her head back, as though she might have been in the constraint of a gag strap, all this to the music, and then her hair was free, and, with a movement of her head and movements of...
1	739	To a swirl of music, taking her hair to the sides, holding it, parting it, with clenched fists thrust behind her, twisting, her body thrust forward, her beauty was suddenly, it seemed as though by command, or by the action of another, brazenly bared.
1	751	As the music neared its climax she returned before our table, dancing desperately and pleadingly.
1	764	Then the music was finished and she was before us, kneeling, her head down, in submission to Samos.
1	808	"Tula!" cried men, and, sensuously, she lifted her arms, and, standing, excitingly posed, awaited the instruction of the music.
1	814	The music began and Tula danced.
2	838	In a small space, with Henrius and some men about, to the music of some nearby musicians, the men clapping and keeping time, she was dancing.
2	1261	I listened to the merriment of the revelers outside, to the cries, the horns and music.
12	188	"And love," I said, "is only a disturbance in the glands and music only a stirring in the air".
12	190	"Kaissa, like love and music, is its own justification," I said.

Book 21. (3 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
4	515	"music is not even necessary.
20	44	In such places were to be found the rare, precious habitats of culture, the astonishing, moving delights of art and music, the truths of theater and literature, the glories and allegories of architecture, bespeaking the meanings of peoples, man-made symbols like mountain ranges; in the...
25	2022	There is even music here.

Book 22. (20 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
11	981	As the music concluded I performed floor movements, and the eyes of the men blazed, and fists pounded on the tables, and then the music was done and I lay before them on my back, my breasts rising and falling as I fought for breath, my body sheened with sweat, my hands be...
1	180	I then, in the candlelight, on the rug, before the mirror, silently, to no music but what was in my own heart, danced.
3	70	It was not necessary for them to know that sometimes, when we utilized costumes, other than our leotards and scarves, that that quiet Doreen, barefoot, in anklets and bracelets, with whirling necklaces, with her midriff bared, sometimes with her thighs stripped, swirled in fringed halter and shimmer...
3	112	We were dancing, twenty of us, in leotards, and shawls or scarves, to the music on the tape recorder.
11	94	Yesterday, at the conclusion of my last lesson, when in a swirl of music, I had lowered myself to the floor, in a dancer's posture of abject submission before men, I had heard several of them cry out with approval, and strike their left shoulders repeatedly, fiercely, with the palms of...
11	471	The music of Gor, or much of it, is very melodious and sensuous.
11	894	The music was rich about me.
11	943	Suddenly in my dance it seemed I was a virgin, reluctant and fearful, terrified in the reality in which she found herself, but knowing she must respond to the music, to those heady, sensuous rhythms, to the wild cries of the flute, to the beating of the drum.
11	944	I then danced timidity, and reluctance and inhibition, but yet reflecting, as one would, in such a situation, the commands of the music.
11	947	I pretended to shrink down within myself, to desire to crouch down, and conceal and cover my nudity, but then I straightened up, fearfully, as though I had heard commands to desist in such absurdities, and then I extended my hands to the sides, to various sides, as though pleading for mercy, to be r...
11	949	Then, as the dance continued, I signified by expression and movement my curiosity and fascination with what I was being forced to do, and the responses of my body, reconciled now to its reality, helplessly obedient now to the music.
11	957	I then felt my hips, and thighs, and breasts, and belly, as these seemed to come alive in the music.
11	979	I knew the music was approaching its climax, and the dance must be concluded.
13	746	Such places, regardless of their cost, their location, their appointments, the excellence of their food and drink, the beauty of their slaves, the quality of their music, existed, as did the tavern of Hendow, for the pleasures of men.
13	747	That was the purpose of such places, whether they were within lofty towers, reached by graceful bridges, or near the wharves, close enough to hear the tide lapping at the pilings, whether they had a dozen musicians or only a single, dissolute czehar player, alone with his music
17	203	I then heard the soft swirl of music which I well recognized.
17	207	With the music of the double flute in the background I modestly removed the ta-teera, putting it to the side.
17	223	I then, at the finish of the music, knelt before them, submitted, as a female slave, and then, still kneeling, lifted my head.
17	240	Sometimes in my dance I made use of the chain, sometimes pretending, to the music, to fight it, a fight which I had to lose, or not to understand it, looking to the men then, as though they might explain its meaning to me; they did, with raucous cries; sometimes I used it to caress me,...
31	216	There was no music, of course, and so the dance must content itself largely with the expression, as it were, of my servitude, and my subjection to his will.

Book 23. (5 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
4	17	Similarly, there were no recreational gardens, no art galleries, no strolling lanes, no arcades of merchants, no physicians' courts, no reading rooms, no music rooms, or such.
24	288	I could hear music now, coming from the piers of Port Cos.
24	391	music came from them.
24	454	All seemed a riot of music and color.
24	601	There was other music, too, here and there, from the piers, greeting other ships.

Book 24. (11 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	641	The slaves present themselves, usually one by one, often to the accompaniment of music, for the inspection of the guests.
1	653	Immediately one of the girls, a sensuous, widely hipped, sweetly breasted slave, half walking, half dancing, to the music, swirled amongst the guests and then presented herself particularly before the burly fellow, moving before him, back and forth, facing him, turning about.
1	741	Then the slave stood before the burly fellow, her shoulders back, her head up, proud in her slavery, unabashedly exultant in it, her body seeming hardly to move, but yet revealing, and obedient to, as must be the body of a slave in the parade, the music.
1	769	And in all this, of course, time was kept with the music.
1	777	Though she scarcely moved, in her body yet was the music.
1	793	The two fellows who had supplied the music were silent.
1	859	Yet, too, uncompromisingly, she was one with the music, and, particularly in the beginning, with the story, seeming to examine her own charms, timidly, as if, like the "Tina" of the song, she might be considering her possible merits, whether or not she might qualify for bondage, whethe...
1	947	The music stopped, and the girl, instinctively, among the others, fell to the dirt and lay there before him, on her back, looking at him, her breasts heaving, a submitted slave.
39	64	Then, as the music swirled to a conclusion, the captive lowered her head, humbly.
39	70	Then, to a passage of music, all rose up, hunted and hunters, all now in the net, and, in the small, pretty running steps of hastening slave girls, hurried from the floor.
40	2	The music had stopped.

Book 25. (18 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
9	665	"Czehar music," she said, "and, later, the recitation of poetry by Milo, the famed actor, to the music of the double flute".
2	226	"I hear some music outside," I said.
2	341	"I hear music outside, the instruments of peasants, I believe," said Marcus, turning to me.
3	431	The blonde was now on her knees, extending her hands to her master, piteously, all this with the music in her arms, her shoulders, her head and hair, her belly.
3	747	She had now, as the music swirled to its finish, returned to move before her master.
8	427	We could now hear the flute music quite clearly.
8	466	"It is a joke of Lurius of Jad, I gather," said Marcus, "that the walls of Ar should be torn down to the music of flute girls".
8	485	"Officially," I said, "the music of the flute girls is supposed to make the work more pleasant".
8	942	Of what dreadful value are such skills? Of what value, really, is it to be able to bring down a running man with the great bow at two hundred yards, to throw the quiva into a two-hort circle at twenty paces, to wield a sword with an agility others might bring to the handling of a knife? Of what use ...
8	1011	To be sure, the work was not now being performed to the music of flute girls.
9	573	music may be furnished at such banquets, as a pleasant background to conversation, by a slave kneeling to one side, playing the kalika.
9	580	Here, perhaps, if music is desired, and one's slave is not accomplished, one or more flute girls might be brought in, perhaps hired from a feast house, who will furnish unobtrusive, pleasant airs.
9	762	You would not wish to miss the czehar music nor the performance of Milo".
10	136	For a long time we could hear the music of the flute girl who brought up the rear.
13	210	Similarly, one might have lived, I supposed, without having eaten meat, without having heard music.
22	160	Flute music is apparently extremely important in Gorean theater.
22	162	It seems the flute player is often on stage and accompanies performers about, pointing up speeches, supplying background music, and such.
22	163	This is accepted as Gorean theatrical convention, it seems, much as background music is accepted in our modern films, even in such unlikely locations as city streets, airplanes, life rafts, and deserts.

Book 26. (17 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
14	9	We had come from the bazaar with its sights and sounds, and booths and stalls, and the crowding, and the music.
16	44	The music was very soft, unobtrusive, in the background.
16	63	The music was subtle, insistent.
16	77	I could hear the music.
16	96	When I had parted my veil, and brushed it back, and put it behind me, I could hear, in the music to my right, in a ripple of interest and approval, of delight and excitement, the musicians' reaction.
16	107	I was sure of that, from the music.
16	125	The music rippled.
16	165	At one point he lifted his finger and the music stopped, and I stopped.
16	169	And so again the music began, and again I danced.
16	188	I must remember the hand and arm movements, the spins, the circles, the lifts, the thrusts! And then, at some point, perhaps when I was kneeling before him, moving my arms, and head and shoulders, I think I became one with the music and the dance.
16	203	Did I hear the striking of the shoulders in applause, the pounding of goblets on low tables, the urgent cries of men? What power, I thought, must a dancer, a true dancer, exercise over men! How she must arouse them, how she must drive them mad with passion! But what power, ultimately, is hers, for s...
16	218	He lifted his finger and the music stopped, and I, too, stopped.
16	234	For a time I danced in this fashion, and then, again, he lifted his finger and the music stopped, and, I, too, stopped.
16	295	The Earth woman then, to the music, slowly and gracefully lowered herself to the floor, and there, to those sensuous strains, speaking so unabashedly to the blood of men and women, continued her dance.
16	296	He clapped his hands, ending the music.
19	15	There was music in the docking area, adding to the celebration.
19	25	The music continued.

Book 27. (30 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
11	13	She had been reminded, entering it for the first time, of pictures in large, glossy magazines, the sort claimedly and pretentiously devoted to the arts of gracious living, those magazines intended to supply apparently desperately desired and much-needed instruction to the ignorant affluent, informin...
16	9	There was something articulate and precise in the music, in the sounds.
19	626	In another place, within a rectangle of canvas walls, on a small stage, as the music of flutes and a czehar drifted upward, she saw acrobats, jugglers and fire-eaters.
22	4	The music of czehars, flutes, and kalikas, from scattered bands of musicians, swirled throughout the gigantic festival camp, spread over pasangs.
22	124	Some of the slaves already, to the music of the czehars and other instruments, which was clearly audible everywhere in the camp, danced.
22	442	* * * * It was a few Ehn later when, making her way amongst the joking, roaring, laughing, colorfully garbed men, tunicked and robed, many sitting about the fires, some afoot, moving here and there, the firelight reflecting from the side of the red-figured pitcher, the side of her lit by one of the ...
22	652	How vulnerable we are! How they make us theirs! They play us like czehars, drawing what music they will from our bodies! How arrogantly, how imperiously they master us, their slaves! And Ellen envied the slave within the tent.
24	96	They were not like most of the other circles, which were in the open, where naked slaves swayed to distant music for the delectation of masters.
24	144	There was a skirl of music from the musicians outside, to one side of the sand, flutes, czehars, two kalikas, a tabor.
24	420	She could not control her body with the subtlety they manifested, but she could see some of the simpler things they did, and she had some sense of what it might be to yield to such music, to obey it, to surrender herself to it, abjectly, as an aroused, commanded slave.
24	425	The music followed Ellen, quietly, expectantly, enhancing her contrived mystery.
24	479	Then, as she spun in the sand, to the music, she unwound the veil and put it down about her shoulders.
24	492	Who could be tearing her veil away from her body? Could these be invisible assailants, of some powerful, but uncertain nature, or were they her own needs determined despite her conscious will to have their way with her, to reduce her brutishly, ruthlessly, to the denied, but beloved core of her bein...
24	498	The music stopped with her.
24	506	Then swiftly, to music, it seemed she was turned about, fiercely, and then, as she stood still, yet seeming to resist in place, it seemed that her hands, wrists crossed, were lifted up behind her, to the small of her back.
24	537	Had it been real? Had it truly taken place? Had she once been there, actually lived there, in such a place? Could it be? She listened to the music outside the area of preparation, the cries of the men.
24	555	She turned about, to the music, and then lifted her left wrist, looking upon it, with dismay.
24	573	She then, with the music, seemed to swirl about as though in incomprehension.
24	576	She then, in moving to the music, seemed to first notice, back on the sand, to the left of the parting in the silk, as one would face it, the veil which she had earlier discarded.
24	578	She approached it, moving with the music, frightened.
24	581	But then, to the music, turning away, she drew back her hand in fear.
24	597	Then, as the music swirled, she apparently protested, and pleaded with the master, regarding him with disbelief and misery, shaking her head piteously, negatively.
24	664	The music swirled about her.
24	674	Obey the music! Let it teach you! The resources of the slave girl are limited.
24	675	What have we to offer, to bargain with, to petition with, but our beauty, our desirability, our intelligence, our passion, our desire to serve and love helplessly and wholly, asking nothing, giving all? I feel the music.
24	697	How could he do other than hold her in contempt? Then, exhausted, miserable, aroused, tearful, she, in a sudden swirl of music, concluded her dance, hurling herself to the sand, to her left side, her legs drawn up, she on her left elbow, her right hand lifted piteously to the crowd.
24	758	It is not unusual for a master to speak of numerous matters with his female slave, politics, culture, music, history, philosophy, and such, almost as though she might be his equal, though she is likely to be kneeling before him, naked, and back-braceleted.
24	776	"I did not so much dance, as act to music.
24	778	I tried to imitate them! I tried to do well! Then I felt myself taken by the music, and I could not help myself.
24	780	I had been captured by the music.

Book 28. (16 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	350	Such, it is supposed, would present a normal male with an interesting, unusual, and naive object of desire, one which could be interestingly exploited, and conveniently and ruthlessly ravaged, doubtless to her bewilderment, and consternation, rather like the young female slaves who are raised in iso...
11	65	"Do they hear the music as we do?" asked Cabot.
11	69	"Have you ever heard Kur music?" "No," said Cabot.
11	71	"Sometimes when they seem to move strangely, or meaninglessly, they are listening to their music".
21	23	"Can you hear the music?" asked Peisistratus.
21	26	"But it sounds not like music, but rather like throbbings, like the wind in the forest, like rushing streams, subtle, distant, sometimes cries, as of seized, frightened animals, such things".
21	47	"I thought Kur music was silent, or almost so".
21	49	"But the drums may not even be understood as music.
36	9	"Lita," called Cabot, "fling the garland!" Lita removed the garland from her hair and tossed it away from her, and scarcely had it left her hand than the string of the bow of Lord Grendel leaped forward, and then vibrated with that sudden, intense purr, the bow's music, signaling a fli...
73	171	Prepare jewelries and festive garments, for tomorrow there will be music, enactments, martial dances, and games.
74	17	Much of the music was lost on Cabot, as he could hear little of it, and what he heard was little to his liking.
74	59	Some female slaves, who had been of the pleasure cylinder, danced, to music supplied by the men of Peisistratus.
79	148	There was the music of flutes, and a tabor, and one kalika, and a slave, she of one of Peisistratus' men, stamped her feet, and turned, and danced in the firelight.
79	180	In any event, in the world, and on Gor, as well, poetry, like music, and song, is familiar, public, and popular.
79	390	"You gave us what we wanted, to see you in the firelight, naked, a slave, in the music.
79	518	And doubtless millions of female slaves have been picked out for others, matched to others, to the best of the purchaser's ability, a slave who sings and recites, and plays the lyre, for a fellow who loves poetry and music, a skilled dancer for a fellow who is fond of dance, a brillian...

Book 29. (5 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
5	58	Its fascinations, as those of art and music, exercise their spells and raptures.
5	495	And many sang, and congratulated themselves on their newly found virtue, while dismantling their walls to the scornful music of flute girls.
8	22	The Pyrrhic dances were used primarily as training exercises, but also figured in parades and martial displays, men shouting, spears clashing rhythmically on shields, the spear hedge rising and falling, wheeling about, a thousand spears in unison, this all to music.
10	83	Sometimes, too, they would sell themselves to such a house, to be trained in arts of pleasure, for example, music, dancing, singing, conversation, and such.
16	78	I suppose, to many, certain things might seem dreadful, the blast of the war horn, the thunder of tarn drums, the soaring descent to the attack, the scream of the tarn, the music of the bowstring, blood's lyre, with its song of death, but, too, to some, there is little which so speaks ...

Book 30. (9 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
10	69	And in the public garden she only now becomes aware, following her master, heeling him, that the rich sequence of blossoms is not only arranged like music, with its color, tint into tint, shade into shade, tone into tone, to dramatically enhance the delight of a walk, but there is anot...
1	323	The walls of Ar, mightier even than those of southern Turia, were dismantled by duped, rejoicing citizens to the music of flute girls, and betrayed, fallen Ar would be systematically looted and exploited for months.
2	50	I went first to Jad, city of my birth, city of great Lurius, our Ubar, where I had been enlisted and trained, but swords were plentiful there, and I was scorned, for my blade, with helmet and gear, was gone, having been bartered, in part, together with my last tarsk, for passage, for life, from the ...
5	10	It is lovely when, later, the ships, wreathed with flowers, to singing and music, are brought to the water.
33	154	Indeed, he may often bring in rent slaves from the party houses to sing and dance for him, and his guests, to play the kalika, to accompany with flute music the measuring of wine and the cutting of meat.
36	508	Indeed, some take great pleasure in reading, as others might in music, or conversation.
37	931	"One lacking civilization, or derived from some civilization which is unnatural and inferior, perhaps one which is complex, selfish, polluted, crowded, and uncaring, one unfamiliar with suitable customs and proprieties, with codes and castes, with literature, music, and poetry".
37	932	"Gorean literature, music, and poetry," I said.
37	1311	"I thought of myself, frequently enough, as a property, as owned, as a girl who must unquestioningly, fearfully, obey masters, who might dance for their pleasure, about campfires in lonely places, on streets in shabby districts, to a master's flute, on the decks of galleys, to the clapping of hands,...

Book 31. (8 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
4	334	It will not be difficult to arrange music.
8	371	What if they had been tortuously slow, reading my body, playing upon it, as on a czehar or kalika, bringing forth what music they wished? Could I help what I was, female, and slave? A thousand modalities attend the mastership, and the slave learns a thousand yieldings, and submissions.
11	169	"Then it was noticed one evening that the blinded beast was turning about, and moving, in time to the carnival music, when the kaiila were performing, and later, the striped urts.
11	170	This was brought to the attention of the owner, the chief trainer, who brought a flautist to the vicinity of the cage, and, behold, the beast danced to the music of the flute.
18	361	How could that be? Were the slaves not beautiful enough? I knew that a yearning slave, to one side, lying in her chains, must often await the outcome of such a game There was music in the tavern, a czehar player, a drummer, utilizing the small tabor, two flautists, and a pair of kalika...
18	470	At that moment there was an exciting skirl of music, a flash of bells, a burst of color, a jangle of beads, and a cry of enthusiasm from the patrons, and a dancer was on the floor.
18	473	Then the music began, softly, slowly, and the dancer, looking about herself, began to move, obedient to the melody of masters.
27	89	Some of the beasts were striking on small bars, which, we gathered, constituted a form of music.

Book 32. (3 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
49	63	Too, they are often highly trained, in music, singing, dancing, conversation, the serving of tea, the arranging of flowers, and such".
50	197	Even the sounds of the links moving against one another can be an informative, illuminating music.
52	32	This tendency may be expressed in innumerable ways, from the design of cities to the bright colors of buildings and walls, and porches and pillars, from long garden paths, a pasang in length, characterized by a planned music of scent as well as a scenic melody of blossoms, to the shapi...

Book 33. (2 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
11	70	There are men who dedicate themselves to an art, to painting, to music, to poetry.
20	381	I was reminded of the architecture of the plantings, the sequences of flowers, in the garden outside, with their music of aromatic notes.

Book 34. (10 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
11	106	Warriors might perform martial exercises to music, in the manner of Pyrrhic dances, advancing, withdrawing, wheeling about, and such, brandishing weaponry; athletes might train to music; sa-tarna might be harvested to music; grain might be threshed to ...
11	104	It was not unusual on this world, incidentally, for many activities to be accompanied by music which, on my former world, would not be likely to be so accompanied.
11	110	Once, I had heard, the walls of a great city, Ar, defeated in war, had been dismantled, to the music of flute girls.
11	111	Doubtless music has many practical applications.
24	45	After the better part of the Ahn, we had doubtless entered one of the gates of Brundisium, as I then heard the cries of vendors, the rolling of wheels, the snorting of draft beasts, the sounds of men, music, a kalika, from somewhere.
30	334	Four times the music stopped, and I waited for the return of Kurik, of Victoria, but it would begin again, perhaps with another slave, certainly with another tempo, another mood, another exhibition of how marvelously beautiful and desirable a human female can be, another exhibition of ...
53	26	Accordingly, the nature of triumphs, accorded to victorious commanders, triumphs celebrating successful campaigns, the acquisition of loot, the capture of prisoners and slaves, and such, might range from parades through the city in full panoply, displaying spoils, chains of slaves, and such, to proc...
57	115	"What do you conjecture?" "If it were night, indoors," said Kurik, "I would suppose any number of things, depending on the house, music, the kalika and czehar, the aulus and tabor, acrobats, jugglers, flute girls, eaters of fire, the reading of poetry, the chanting of histories, profes...
59	121	It is common in arena sports, in the killing games, the beast fights, in the tarn races, the races of kaiila and tharlarion, as in the contests of dramas, of choral song, of music, and poetry, to include kajirae amongst the winnings, amongst the spoils of victory.
68	254	I heard some music, a czehar, tabor, and flute.

Book 35. (9 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
10	55	I listened to the music, supplied by a czehar player, which, now, was soft, slow, and sensuous.
11	663	I could hear the sounds of the crowd in the tavern, and the music.
12	56	One of the indications of the quality of the Golden Chain, aside from the excellence of its paga and provender, apart from the richness of its music and the beauty of its slaves, was the varying of its décor and appointments, often indexed to holidays of one sort or another.
46	391	There was a swirl of music from the musicians.
46	400	Then Euphrosyne, obedient to the music, ended her dance and sank, weary and sweating, smug and triumphant, to the surface of the dancing floor.
46	573	I became aware that the music no longer seemed listless, tentative, perfunctory, or skeptical; rather it seemed awakened, participatory, challenging, even encouraging, watchful, and eager.
46	583	The music began to swirl to its conclusion.
46	585	Then the music, abruptly, ended.
46	665	I heard the sounds of music from behind me, as the slave, Sandra, danced, and men, jubilant, and content, well satisfied, too, with a free round of paga, failed to note our departure.

Book 36. (3 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
6	223	Almost at the same moment there was a bright skirl of music and the dancer, in her swirling silks and veils, her ankle bells, and bracelets and necklaces, began to perform.
26	4	This is not as strange as it might seem, for on Gor, as in the ancient world on Earth, flute music was often used to time and regulate repetitious tasks and physical labor.
59	150	"It is very loud, is it not," had asked Thurnock, "the music, the cheering, and all?" "Quite," I had said, being shoved about somewhat, as a fellow squeezed by, intent on getting more to the front of the crowd.