Musica Asiatica: Volume 4

A fourth volume of studies in the historical musicology and organology of Asia.

Laurence Picken (Edited by)

9780521278379, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 29 March 1984

280 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.41 kg

In this fourth volume of studies in the historical musicology and organology of Asia, Jonathan Condit completes his survey of Korean scores in mensural notation, and Roger Blench examines the morphology and distribution of sub-Saharan musical instruments of North African, Middle Eastern, and Asian origin.

1. Korean scores in the modified fifteenth-century mensural notation J. Condit
2. The making of a khaen: the free-reed mouth-organ of North East Thailand L. E. R. Picken, C. J. Adkins and T. F. Page
3. The morphology and distribution of sub-Saharan musical instruments of North-African, Middle-Eastern, and Asian, origin R. Blench
4. Anatolian drum and shawm come to a Greek-Smuggler's village M. Forescue and L. E. R. Picken
5. Music for a lion-dance of the song Dynasty L. E. R. Picken.

Subject Areas: Non-Western music: traditional & "classical" [AVGE]