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Article: Music of South Slavic Epics from the Bihac Region of Bosnia.(Review)
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Transcribed by Stephen Erdely. (Milman Parry Studies in Oral Tradition.) New York: Garland, 1995. [Series foreword, 1 p.; pref., p. 1-3; essays "The Recordings in the Parry Collection," "Transcription of Melodies," "On Epic Singing," p. 5-27; the epics, p. 29-629; conclusion, p. 631-32; bibliog., p. 633-39. Cloth; acid-free paper. ISBN 0-8153-1237-7. $135.]
Stephen Erdely's Music of Southslavic Epics from the Bihac Region of Bosnia focuses on the recordings housed in the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature at Harvard University. Between 1934 and 1935, Milman Parry (1902-1935), a Homeric scholar from Harvard, went with his student and assistant Albert Bates ...