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The Musical Instruments of the Indigenous People of South Africa /

A detailed collection of information about the playing and making of the instruments of indigenous peoples' in South Africa. Percival Kirby was a musician and ethnomusicologist and for many years head of the music department at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Between 1923 a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kirby, Percival R. (Percival Robson), 1887-1970 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Edición:Third edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Rattles and clappers
  • Drums
  • Xylophones and 'sansas'
  • Bill-roarers and spinning-disks
  • Horns and trumpets
  • Whistles, flutes and vibrating reeds
  • Reed-flute ensembles
  • The 'gora', a stringed-wind instrument
  • Stringed instruments
  • Bushman and hottentot violins and the 'ramkie'
  • Some European instruments played by natives.