The Musical Instruments of the Indigenous People of South Africa

Released on by Percival Kirby
preview-18

  • The Musical Instruments of the Indigenous People of South Africa Book Detail

  • Author : Percival Kirby
  • Release Date : 2013-08-01
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Genre : Music
  • Pages : 501
  • ISBN 13 : 1868148289
  • File Size : 74,74 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

The Musical Instruments of the Indigenous People of South Africa by Percival Kirby PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own The Musical Instruments of the Indigenous People of South Africa books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.