Small, Christopher, 1927-2011

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Name (Latin)
Small, Christopher, 1927-2011
Other forms of name
Small, Neville Charles Christopher, 1927-2011
Small, Christopher, 1927-
Date of birth
1927-03-25
Date of death
2011-09-07
Place of birth
Palmerston North (N.Z.)
Place of death
Sitges (Spain)
Occupation
Musicologists Authors
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 27358254
Wikidata: Q1086970
Library of congress: n 77007577
Sources of Information
  • His Music, society, education, 1977:t.p. (Christopher Small) jkt. (b. 1927 in N.Z., B.Mus., Vict. U., Wellington)
  • BL AL recd. 20th Oct. 1988(Neville Charles Christopher Small, born 25th March 1927)
  • New York times WWW site, Sept. 12, 2011(in obituary published Sept. 10: Christopher Small; b. 1927, Palmerston North, N.Z.; d. Wednesday [Sept. 7, 2011], Sitges, Spain, aged 84; writer and musicologist who argued that music is above all an active ritual involving those who play and listen to it and only secondarily a matter of "black dots," as he once called written music)
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Wikipedia description:

Christopher Neville Charles Small (17 March 1927 – 7 September 2011) was a New Zealand-born musician, educator, lecturer, and author of many influential books and articles in the fields of musicology, sociomusicology and ethnomusicology. He coined the term musicking, to highlight music as a process (verb) and not an object (noun.)

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