Colin McPhee | |
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 Portrait of McPhee by American photographer Carl Van Vechten, c. 1935 | |
| Born | March 15, 1900 Montréal, Québec, Canada |
| Died | January 7, 1964 (aged 63) Los Angeles, California |
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Jane Belo
(m. 1931; div. 1939) |
Colin Carhart McPhee (March 15, 1900 – January 7, 1964) was a Canadian-American composer and ethnomusicologist. He is best known for being the first Western composer to make a musicological study of Bali,[1] and to develop American gamelan along with fellow composer Lou Harrison. He wrote original music influenced by that of Bali and Java, decades before such compositions that were based on world music became widespread.
- ^ Pamela Karantonis; Dylan Robinson (May 13, 2016). Opera Indigene: Re/presenting First Nations and Indigenous Cultures. Routledge. pp. 296–297. ISBN 978-1-317-08542-3.