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Writing American Indian Music: Historic Transcriptions, Notations, and Arrangements. Edited by Victoria Lindsay Levine. (Recent Researches in American Music, 44. Music of the United States of America, 11.) Madison, Wisc.: A-R Editions, 2002. [xxxviii, 304 p. ISBN 0-895-794949. $125.] Music examples, illustrations and color plates, bibliography, index.

Students of North American Indian music who wish to engage in dialogue with their musicologist colleagues are often stymied by the problems of notation and the apparent lack of historical notations. Researchers into traditions in the American northeast, for example, must comb through the pages of seventeenth-century ...

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