Primitive music : an inquiry into the origin and development of music, songs, instruments, dances, and pantomimes of savage races

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Wallaschek, Richard, 1860-1917, author

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A Victorian study of the music, instruments and dance of the world's indigenous peoples from which the author, a pioneer in comparative musicology, develops his theory of the origin of music based ...

A Victorian study of the music, instruments and dance of the world's indigenous peoples from which the author, a pioneer in comparative musicology, develops his theory of the origin of music based on rhythm and an innate sense of time, rather than the melody of speech.

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