Author: Percival Robson Kirby
Publisher:
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Category : Musical instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Author: Laurie Levine
Publisher: Jacana Media
ISBN: 9781770090460
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Track list for accompanying CD: p. 266-273.

Author: Percival R. Kirby
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780899555089
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: George William Stow
Publisher:
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 690

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The author of this volume died before it was ready for the press. The illustrations had, most fortunately, been carefully prepared, and they are reproduced by chromolithography, so that they are indistinguishable from the originals, except that most of them have been reduced in size. The manuscript was purchased by Miss Lucy C. Lloyd from Mr. Stow's widow, with the intention of having it published, but other work has prevented that lady from bestowing upon it the time and care needed for its arrangement. In 1904 Miss Lloyd, feeling that a work of such importance ought to be placed before the public without further delay, did the author the honour of submitting the manuscript for the inspection and advice as to what should be done in the matter. Miss Lloyd, who is the greatest living authority upon the Bushmen, attested the accuracy of much in Mr. Stow's description of the customs and mode of life of those people, though she doubted whether his division of that race into the two branches of painters and sculptors could be maintained, thinking it probable that this matter was determined by locality and convenience.

Author: Percival Robson Kirby
Publisher:
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Category : Music instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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Author: Percival Robson Kirby
Publisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Author: Percival Robson Kirby
Publisher:
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Category : Musical instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 293

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Author: Percival Kirby
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1868148289
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 501

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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 and 1933 he undertook more than nine expeditions as well as many shorter excursions around South Africa. He was hosted by local chiefs and taught to play the instruments he encountered. He managed to purchase many of them, and this collection, now known as the Kirby Collection, is housed at the South African College of Music, University of Cape Town. First published as Musical Instruments of the Native Races of South Africa in 1934, the book was the culmination of research trips undertaken by Percival Kirby. It became the standard reference on indigenous South African musical instruments. The bulk of the material is concerned with detailed information on the making and playing of each instrument, and is accompanied by a large number of musical examples. This third edition contains an introduction by Mike Nixon, Head of the Ethnomusicology and African Music at the South African College of Music, and new reproductions of the valuable historic photographs, but leaves Kirby's original text unchanged.

Author: Sazi Dlamini
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 150134675X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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Musical Bows of Southern Africa brings together current scholarly research that documents a rich regional diversity as well as cultural relationships in bow music knowledge and contemporary practices. The book is framed as a critical appraisal of traditional ethnomusicological studies of the region – complementing pioneering studies and charting contexts for a contemporary engagement with bow music as an exchangeable cultural practice. Each contribution is written by an expert in the field and collectively demonstrates the multidisciplinary potential of bow music, highlighting the several fields of knowledge that intersect with bow music including ethno-organology, applied ethnomusicology, composition, music literacy, social development, cultural economics, history, orality, performance and language.

Author: Percival R. Kirby
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780854940448
Category : Musical instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 293

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A detailed survey of native music in South Africa by Emeritus Professor P. R. Kirby, who studied the instruments under the guidance of native experts while living among the tribesmen. Firstly, a study of primitive music and secondly, a book of anthropological interest as it adds greatly to the knowledge of the customs of native tribes. It is profusely illustrated by photographs of living subjects, as well as of instruments from his own collection.