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Music works I-Scores of work songs, undated

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 15
Identifier: 0039_PER_Pian_Series_1_Subseries_7_Folder_15
-Work topics. Typescript (photocopy). Includes:

 1) Unit I. Music and work (Relation of context to music most clear)

 2) Music 198. Unit I. Music and work. Reading list

 3) Outline and topics of discussion. Music 198. Unit I. Music and work. With duplicate copies

-1 sheet of plates. Photocopy (Note 2)

-Plate CXXIX. Traditional rope-suspended pile-driver in use on the Old Silk Road (org. photo, 1943). Photocopy (Note 2)

-Chinese work songs and vendor's cries. Photocopy. Includes:

 1) Boatmen's song (In the Gorges of the Yangtze River). With some 5-line staff notation. Lyrics in Romanized text. “From “Behind the Great Wall”. Monitor MP 525. Reissued as “Sounds of Music of China”. Monitor MFS525” (Note 2)

 2) Road workers (Shanghai?). 1 Score (page 2). 5-line staff notation. Lyrics in Romanized text (Note 2)

 3) Earth pounding (Peking). 1 Score (page 3). 5-line staff notation. Lyrics in Romanized text (Note 2)

 4) Pole carriers (Hangchow). 1 Score (page 4). 5-line staff notation. Lyrics in Romanized text (Note 2)

 5) A boatman’s song (The Gorges of the Yangtze). 1 score (page 5). 5-line staff notation. Lyrics in Romanized text (Note 2)

 6) Boatmen & a solo voice (The Gorges of the Yangtze). 1 score (page 6). 5-line staff notation. Lyrics in Romanized text (Note 2)

-Work songs: Chinese work songs and vendor's cries. “From “Behind the Great Wall”. Monitor MP 525. Reissued as “Sounds of Music of China” Monitor MFS525”. 5-line staff notation. Lyrics in Romanized text and English translation (Note 2). Includes:

 1) Boatmen's song (In the Gorges of the Yangtze River) (Note 2)

 2) Road workers (Shanghai?) (Note 2)

 3) Peking work song (Earth pounding workers) (Note 2)

 4) Pole carriers (Hangchow) (Note 2)

 5) Solo boatman song (Note 2)

 6) Boatman & a solo voice (Note 2)

-Work songs. “Most of these work song examples are from “Behind the Great Wall” Monitor MP 525, reissued as “Sounds of Music of China” Monitor MPS525”. With scores in 5-line staff notation. Lyrics in Romanized text. 6 sheets. Typescript (photocopy). With duplicate copies (Note 2). Includes:

 1) Boatmen's song (Note 2)

 2) Road workers (Shanghai?) (Note 2)

 3) Earth pounding (Peking) (Note 2)

 4) Pole carriers (Hangchow) (Note 2)

 5) Single boatman’s song (Note 2)

Dates

  • undated

Language of Materials

English

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1 file(s)

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