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| The World of Gamelan | ||
| This site offers great photos and sound files to accompany descriptions of gamelan music and the instruments that are used in its performance. ( http://alek.zipzap.ch/gamelan/inde_eng.htm ) | ||
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| Musical Instruments of Malaysia | ||
| This site offers photos and sounds of aerofons, cordofons, idiofons, and membranofons traditional to Malaysia and other parts of Indonesia. ( http://www.zanesville.ohiou.edu/malaysia/Balinese%20Gongmakers.htm ) | ||
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| Play a Gamelan Instrument Online | ||
| This interactive site allows you to play along with gamelan music by striking your computer keyboard on different keys of the pictured instrument. It also offers tunes recorded by this contemporary gamelan group of alternative musicians. ( http://www.monkeyc.org/play.html ) | ||
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| Henry Cowell Biography | ||
| This University of South Carolina site offers a detailed biography on the composer Henry Cowell. ( http://www.sc.edu/library/music/hc_bio.html ) | ||
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| Cowell Interview | ||
| This site features a recorded interview with the composer Henry Cowell, describing his music with some playing examples as well. ( http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collectionid=HenryCowell&collec... ) | ||
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| Music from China | ||
| This site of a current folk ensemble in China offers some beautiful playing on video concert clips that show the instruments up close and provide good examples of traditional Chinese melodies. ( http://www.musicfromchina.org ) | ||
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| The Great Empire of China Music Archive | ||
| This site offers many recorded files of traditional Chinese music, including children's music and more contemporary classical pieces. ( http://www.ibiblio.org/chinese-music/ ) | ||
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| Chinese Folk Music | ||
| This personalized site offers some nice audio and video samples of Chinese folk music in performance. ( http://www.dovesong.com/MP3/MP3_China_Deborah.asp ) | ||
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| John Cage | ||
| This BBC site offers a good biography, discography, and some sound files of the music of John Cage. ( http://bbc.co.uk/music/profiles/cage.shtml ) | ||
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| John Cage Resources | ||
| This site offers some of Cages writings, including an autobiographical statements and quotation, along with links to many sites with sound files and information on his life and works. ( http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/cage/ ) | ||
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