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Transforming Folk and Traditional Sources
Balinese/Colin McPhee

Western composers have also been drawn to traditional music as a source of inspiration for their own works. Colin McPhee's researches into Balinese culture led to his transformation of the gamelan soundscape in his Tabuh-tabuhan.

 


Transcription of Balinese music by
Colin McPhee
Manuscript, 1931?-1935?
Music Division
By permission of Shirley Hawkins, Executrix, Colin Mcphee Estate

   
   

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