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The Appalachian Dulcimer to 1940: A Census and Typology of Pre-Revival Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Fretted Zithers in the Upland South of the United States with an Analysis of Their Musical Intervals

Archive File: LAVC/SRP/1/013

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Type of record: Archive

Title: The Appalachian Dulcimer to 1940: A Census and Typology of Pre-Revival Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Fretted Zithers in the Upland South of the United States with an Analysis of Their Musical Intervals

Level: File

Classmark: LAVC/SRP/1/013

Creator(s): Smith, Lloyd Allen

Site Location(s): Subject - Appalachia, United States of America, North America( 36.9068, -82.7818 )

Date(s): 1979

Size and medium: viii, 814 bound typed leaves; b/w, colour photographs. 3 volumes.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/409909

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Volume one of this Ph.D. comprises an introduction and methodology chapter, outlining previous work in the field, current method and a preliminary morphology, with notes on terminology. The following chapter describes in detail the instruments, classified by the collector as types A-E, with also a summary and section on the typology chosen. Volume Two, The Census, contains photographs and data relating to instrument types A-D. Volume Three contains photographs and data for instruments type E, with appendices on informants, itinerary, recording methods, a list of instruments, summary tables, an index to accompany the tape recorded examples and suggestions for further research.

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