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X. GREEK INSTRUMENTS
(a) A kithara player singing.

An Athenian vase c. 480 B.C.Reproduced by courtesy of the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston.

(b) A Greek Music School.

The instructor is playing on a lyre and singing; about him are youths
playing double auloi, and holding flutes and lyres. Athenian vase of the
early fifth century B.C.Reproduced by courtesy of the Trustees of the
British Museum.

XI. ROMAN INSTRUMENTS
(a) A Priest of Cybele.

Relief showing cymbals, tympanum, and twin Phrygian pipes. (c. A.D.
150.) See p. 405.

(b) Roman Musicians at the Circus

Showing the tuba, hydraulus (with female player), and cornu. From a
mosaic at Zliten (late first century A.D.).

XII. A ROMAN CONCERT

Showing twin pipes and kithara. See page 413. From a fresco at
Herculaneum. Reproduced by courtesy of the Museo Nazionale, Naples.

XIII. ARABIC INSTRUMENTS

From the Kitāb al-Adwār of Ṣafī al-Din 'Abd al-Mu'min (d. A.D. 1294)

(a) Lute of five double strings (Bodleian Library MS. Marsh 521, fo. 157v.
A.D. 1333-4).
(b) Psaltery of thirty-two strings (from the same MS., fo. 158).
(c) Harp of thirty-four strings (Cairo MS. f. j., 428. A.D. 1326-7).
The Arabic in figure (a) gives the names of the parts of the instrument,
whilst that in figures (b) and (c) indicates the tuning. See pages 462 -3.
XIV. ARABIC MUSIC MANUSCRIPTS
(a) British Museum MS. Or. 2361, fo. 32. Late thirteenth century.
(b) British Museum MS. Or. 136, fo. 38v. Late thirteenth century.

For a transcription of these see pages 454 -5.

Reproduced by courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum.

The Glossary of Chinese characters, pp. 190 -4, was written by Dr. Tsaur
Tian-Chin, sometime Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

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Publication Information: Book Title: Ancient and Oriental Music. Contributors: Egon Wellesz - editor. Publisher: Oxford University Press. Place of Publication: Oxford. Publication Year: 1957. Page Number: xvi.
    
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