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Flexibility and egalitarianism: musical insights from hunter-gatherers
Among egalitarian hunter-gatherer groups across the African continent, musical practices and egalitarianism are argued to be constitutive of one another. Southeast Asian hunter-gatherers also practice egalitarianism, however, their musical practices represent a seeming anomaly alongside those of African hunter-gatherer groups. Discussion of ‘hunter-gatherer musics’ that includes Southeast Asian perspectives has...Rudge, Alice
egalitarianism, polyphony, aesthetics, hunter-gatherer, diversity, and flexibility
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1975
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A manuscript of poems by Robert Sidney: some early impressions
IN January of this year the British Library, with the aid of generous grants from the Pilgrim Trust and the Radcliffe Trust, purchased from an unrevealed source through Messrs. Sotheby's an autograph manuscript, now numbered Additional MS. 58435, comprising sonnets, pastorals, songs, and epigrams composed by Robert Sidney (1563-1626), Earl...Kelliher, Hilton ; Duncan-Jones, Katherine
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1975
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The von Siebold Collection from Tokugawa Japan: 1. Dr Philipp Franz von Siebold's career in the Orient
BY 1867 the collection of Japanese printed books and manuscripts in the British Museum Numbered barely three hundred items whereas, for example, that of printed books alone in Hebrew ran to well over ten thousand. This relatively small collection of Japanese Materials in what were then two sections of the...Brown, Yu-Ying
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1975
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Some occasional aspects of Johann Hermann Schein
IN 1973 the Department of Printed Books of the British Library, Reference Division, acquired a collection of some ninety separate pieces of occasional verse in Latin and German, mainly epithalamia, published in Leipzig between 1608 and 1630. Amongst these are four relating to the composer Johann Hermann Schein (born 1586,...Paisey, David
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1975
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Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books: select manuscript acquisitions January 1970 to June 1973
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The original reconnaissance map for the Battle of Quebec
THE original reconnaissance report prepared by Major, later Colonel, Patrick Mackellar for General Wolfe prior to the battle of Quebec on Abrahams Heights has been known to historians since it was printed by Lieut.-Col. C.V.F. Townshend in 1901 in the Military Life of Field-Marshal George First Marquess Townshend from Townshend...Hudson, J. P.
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1975
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An illuminator's sketchbook
ONLY a handful of the sketch- and model books compiled by artists during the Middle Ages have survived to the present day. In those which have come to light pictorial subject matter predominates, and it is often far from clear whether the book contains models for miniatures or whether it...Backhouse, Janet
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1975
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Notes: An Italian imprint identified; Work in progress: Catalogue of German Books,1601-1700, in the British Library, Reference Division; Work in progress: Catalogue of Polish Books to 1800 in the Slavonic and East European Branch of the Reference Division of the British Library
It is hoped in this section to include notes on items of interest which members of the staff and readers have come across in the course of their work in the Library, but which either do not warrant a full-length article or are peripheral to their discoverer's interests.Rhodes, D. E. ; Paisey, D.L. ; Swiderska, Hanna
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1975
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Recent acquisitions: Department of Manuscripts: acquisitions, January 1973 to December 1974
Department of Manuscripts Acquisitions, January 1973 to December 1974. The following list includes manuscripts incorporated into the collections between January 1973 and December 1974. The inclusion of a manuscript in this list does not necessarily imply that it is available for study. -
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The ruling as a clue to the make-up of a medieval manuscript
ADDITIONAL MS. 47678,' acquired by the British Museum in 1952, is an early ninth century Cicero manuscript written at Tours in Carolingian minuscules. It was still complete when it was at the Abbey of Cluny but only 39 leaves survive out of the 140 or 150 that it probably once...Pattie, T. S.
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