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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1993.Description: 1 online resource (xxvi, 481 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520911079
  • 0520911075
  • 0585108455
  • 9780585108452
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Suspended music.DDC classification:
  • 786.8/848/0931 20
LOC classification:
  • CC250.C6 F35 1993eb
Online resources:
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.
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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.

Print version record.

English.

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