A close-up look at the world of music discusses the history of music and the development of the diverse types of wind, percussion, brass, string, and electronic instruments--from early panpipes to high-tech synthesizers.

"This book represents a study of the musical scales and modes of ancient Greek music. Although it is well-known that the West inherited its musical scales from ancient Greece by way of the early Christian church, less well-known perhaps is the fact that ancient Greek musicians enjoyed the use of a much wider range of scales and modes, many of which characteristically used microtones. Included is a study of these scales together with the information...

Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among taiko groups in Japan, 'Taiko Boom' explores the origins of taiko in the early postwar period and its popularization over the following decades of rapid economic growth in Japan's cities and countryside.