Curt Sachs

German musicologist (1881–1959)

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“The strange, never-ceasing drones used in the choral singing of Tibet belong in the Indian, not the Chinese sphere of Tibetan civilization.”
“[In Burmese music,] "These penetrant oboes, which lead the melody instead of the tinkling gongs of Java and Bali, are definitely Indian. But still more Indian is the unparalleled drum chime of, normally, twenty-four carefully tuned drums, suspended inside the walls of a circular pen, which the player, squatting in the center, strikes with his bare hands in swift, toccata like melodies with stupendous technique and delicacy"”
“When we read in Bharata's classical book of the twenty-two microtones in ancient Indian octaves, of innumerable scales and modes, and of seventeen melodic patterns and their pentatonic and hexatonic alterations, we realize that music at, or even before, the beginning of the first century AD was by no means archaic. Indeed, there is no reason to believe that India's ancient music differed substantially from her modern music.”
“China also passed on to Japan the ceremonial dances of India with their music, which were Japanized as the solemn and colorful Bugaku.”

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Works in European collections

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Italian religious songs of the 14th century : Gloria in cielo

Italian ballades of the 14th century: Ita se n 'era/Vincenzo da Rimini

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