Colin McPhee

Person · Open Library

Works

8

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Canada

Active from

1900-03-15

Active to

1964-01-07

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,376

Total plays

12,763

Colin McPhee (March 15, 1900, in Montreal – January 7, 1964, in Los Angeles) was a Canadian composer and musicologist. He is primarily known for being the first Western composer to make an ethnomusicological study of Bali, and for the quality of that work. He also composed music influenced by that of Bali and Java decades before such world music–based compositions became widespread. Chronology McPhee studied with the avant-garde composer Edgard Varèse before marrying Jane Belo, a disciple of Ma

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: Sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012

   · 2014 · cited 21,636x

2. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,908x

3. RSEM: accurate transcript quantification from RNA-Seq data with or without a reference genome

   · 2011 · cited 19,977x

4. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,798x

5. Operating Characteristics of a Rank Correlation Test for Publication Bias

   · 1994 · cited 14,441x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Colin

Gender

male

Citizenship

Canada

Place of birth

Montreal

Place of death

Los Angeles

Occupation

music critic

Educated at

Peabody Institute

Employer

University of California, Los Angeles

Languages spoken

English language

Award

Guggenheim Fellowship

Student of

Edgard Varèse

Field of work

music

Instrument

piano

Image

Colin McPhee.jpg

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