Celestial symphonies: a study of Chinese music

by Robert Wood Clack

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First edition

New York: Gordon Press, 1976. First edition, 8vo, pp. 4 , 92; includes 10 pages of printed music; printed from typescript; original gilt-stamped red cloth; fine. To the materialistically scientific Occident one of the most maddening characteristics of the Chinese people is their ability to work out a subject in great detail theoretically, combined with their absolute infifference to the practical application of all this beautiful theory. And in no field is

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