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Jean Jenkins and Poul Rovsing Olsen.
Music and Musical Instruments in the World of Islam.
Published London: World of Islam Festival Publishing Co., 1976.
ISBN 0905035127.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: the Westerham Press, Kent.
Size: 190x246x7mm.
Page count: iv,100pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: covers and spine rather yellowed with age with some grubby marks, and some wear to the edges and corners; the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £5.00
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Weight without packaging: 329g.

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Published to accompany an exhibition at the Horniman Museum, London, 1976, held as part of the World of Islam Festival. No medieval emphasis.

Contents: General intro.; Classical music; Instruments & their history; Islamic influences on music of the world.

Notes: no
Tables: no
Illustrations: illustrated throughout, 8 pages in colour, the rest monochrome; line drawings by John Pringle
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 11pp
Index: no

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See also | Music | Islamic studies | Exhibition guides |
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