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Suspended music : chime-bells in the culture of Bronze Age China / Lothar von Falkenhausen.

Title
Suspended music : chime-bells in the culture of Bronze Age China / Lothar von Falkenhausen.
Author
Falkenhausen, Lothar von
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, c1993.

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Description
xxvi, 481 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Subject
  • Bells > China
  • Bronze age > China
  • Chimes
  • Chimes
  • China > Antiquities
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 415-462) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Bells in a bronze Age Culture -- Shape and Acoustic Properties of Chinese Musical Bells -- Origins and Early Development -- Perfection and Decline -- Playing the Bells -- The Tone Measurements and Their Interpretation -- Musical Theory through Zeng Inxscriptions -- Music Suspended: Tone Theory and Its Political Ramifications.
ISBN
0520073789 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^91034554^
OCLC
  • 24502775
  • SCSB-10196048
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library