Wearing a striped tunic and a flat-topped hat, this
ancient musician beats on a tambour drum. For
thousands of years throughout the world, drums
have provided music both joyous and solemn for
ceremonial occasions. In Peru as elsewhere,
warriors marched into battle to the beat of the
drum, and it is possibly in that capacity that this
drummer was buried in an ancient tomb. He may
also have provided the somber cadences of the
funeral march. If we close our eyes, we can almost
hear his distant music echoing through the valleys
of the Andes. In his rhythms, we sense the
heartbeat of a vanished culture.
- (K.117)
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