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Music and civilisation / [edited by T.C. Mitchell].

Title
Music and civilisation / [edited by T.C. Mitchell].
Publication
London : Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Publications, c1980.

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Additional Authors
  • Mitchell, T. C.
  • British Library
  • British Museum issuing body.
Description
247 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
Series Statement
The British Museum yearbook ; 4
Uniform Title
The British Museum yearbook ; 4.
Subject
  • To 500
  • Music in art
  • Musical instruments
  • Music > To 500 > History and criticism
  • Musical instruments, Ancient
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Yearbook.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- The lute in ancient Mesopotamia / Dominique Collon adn Anne Draffkorn Kilmer -- A cylinder seal showing a harpist / Edith Porada -- An Assyrian stringed instrument / T. C. Mitchell -- The technique of playing Ancient Greek instruments of the lyre type / Helen Roberts -- Three clay wind instruments from Ancient India / Robert Knox -- A medieval "gittern" / Mary Remnant and Richard Marks -- The wind-band in England, 1540-1840 / Edward Croft-Murray -- The Manley Ragamala : an album of Indian illustrated musical modes / Robert Cran -- Musical scenes in Japanese woodblock prints / T. V. Harris -- Music and gold-weights in Asante / M. D. McLeod.
ISBN
0714120049
OCLC
  • 7233510
  • SCSB-10300583
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library