Music and tradition
Subtitle: essays on Asian and other musics presented to Laurence Picken
By: edited by D.R. Widdess and R.F. Wolpert.
Contributors: Picken, Laurence Ernest Rowland.; Widdess, Richard.; Wolpert, R. F.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Picken, Laurence Ernest Rowland; Music -- Asia -- History and criticism; Musical instruments -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Condit, J. Two Song-dynasty Chinese tunes preserved in Korea.; title: Marett, A. "Banshiki Sangun" and "Shōenraku."; title: Wolpert, R. Tang-music (Tōgaku) manuscripts for lute and their interrelationships.; title: Mitani, Y. Some melodic features of Chinese qin music.; title: Widdess, R. Aspects of form in North Indian ālāp and dhrupad.; title: Duran, L. Theme and variation in kora music.; title: Turnbull, H. A Sogdian friction-chordophone.; title: Williamson, M.C. The iconography of arched harps in Burma.; title: Lawson, G. An Anglo-Saxon harp and lyre of the ninth century.