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Suspended music :

Falkenhausen, Lothar von.

Suspended music : chime-bells in the culture of Bronze Age China / Lothar von Falkenhausen. - Berkeley : University of California Press, �1993. - 1 online resource (xxvi, 481 pages) : illustrations

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 1988.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-462) and index.

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.


English.

9780520911079 0520911075 0585108455 9780585108452




Bells--China.
Bronze age--China.
Chimes.
MUSIC--Musical Instruments--Percussion.
Antiquities.
Bells.
Bronze age.
Chimes.
Beiaardspel.
Archaeology.
History & Archaeology.


China--Antiquities.
China.
China.

Bells History China


Geschiedenis (vorm)
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

CC250.C6 / F35 1993eb

786.8/848/0931