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Title Music and tradition : essays on Asian and other musics presented to Laurence Picken / edited by D.R. Widdess and R.F. Wolpert.
Contributors Picken, Laurence Ernest Rowland
Widdess, Richard
Wolpert, R. F.
Publisher Cambridge
New York : Cambridge University Press
Creation Date 1981
Notes Includes bibliographies.
Content Condit, J. Two Song-dynasty Chinese tunes preserved in Korea.--Marett, A. "Banshiki Sangun" and "Shōenraku."--Wolpert, R. Tang-music (Tōgaku) manuscripts for lute and their interrelationships.--Mitani, Y. Some melodic features of Chinese qin music.--Widdess, R. Aspects of form in North Indian ālāp and dhrupad.--Duran, L. Theme and variation in kora music.--Turnbull, H. A Sogdian friction-chordophone.--Williamson, M.C. The iconography of arched harps in Burma.--Lawson, G. An Anglo-Saxon harp and lyre of the ninth century.
Extent xi, 244 pages : ill
26 cm.
Language English
National Library system number 990030780500205171

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