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... players totalling from about 40 to well beyond 100 players . The music of the non - Western world is most frequently performed by groups of chamber music size . In this cate- gory would fall the music played by the Javanese gamelan ...
... players totalling from about 40 to well beyond 100 players . The music of the non - Western world is most frequently performed by groups of chamber music size . In this cate- gory would fall the music played by the Javanese gamelan ...
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... played in both North and South America and in the Caribbean ; its use among coastal Negroes of Peru goes back to the 18th century . In the United States it is still encountered in Louisiana and the Carolinas . Sansas in the Caribbean ...
... played in both North and South America and in the Caribbean ; its use among coastal Negroes of Peru goes back to the 18th century . In the United States it is still encountered in Louisiana and the Carolinas . Sansas in the Caribbean ...
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... played in modern folk ensembles as well as in ritual and local theatre or- chestras . This diversity of use has affected manufacture : although flutes are still made in irregular temperaments for traditional music , many are now ...
... played in modern folk ensembles as well as in ritual and local theatre or- chestras . This diversity of use has affected manufacture : although flutes are still made in irregular temperaments for traditional music , many are now ...
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