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

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [1993]
	©1993

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Description	1 online resource (xxvi, 481 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Note	Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 1988.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-462) and index.
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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Subject	Bells -- China.
	Bells.
	China.
	Bronze age -- China.
	Bronze age.
	Chimes.
	Chimes.
	China -- Antiquities.
	Antiquities.
	China -- Antiquities.
Indexed Term	Bells History
	China
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Geschiedenis (vorm)
Other Form:	Print version: Falkenhausen, Lothar von. Suspended music. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1993 0520073789 (DLC) 91034554 (OCoLC)24502775
ISBN	9780520911079 (electronic book)
	0520911075 (electronic book)
	0585108455 (electronic book)
	9780585108452 (electronic book)
	0520073789