Colin McPhee Collection, 1930-1964

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Colin McPhee Collection, 1930-1964

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This collection consists of sound recordings, field notes, photographs, papers and correspondence.

University of California, Los Angeles. Ethnomusicology Archive

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SNAC Resource ID: 6661633

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McPhee, Colin, 1900-1964

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McPhee was born on Mar. 15, 1900 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; graduated from Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, MD (1921) and studied in Paris with Paul Le Flem (1924-6) and in New York with Edgard Varè€se (ca. 1927); he was based in the US from 1926, except for the years he spent in Indonesia; went to Bali in the early 1930s after having heard recordings of Indonesian music, where he composed the toccata Tabuh-Tabuhan; his books A house in Bali (1946), Dance in Bali (1948), and Music in Bali (1...