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Baron, E.G., (same as above), trans. D.A. Smith. Instrumenta Antiqua Publications,
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Daniel, Salvador, The Music and Musical Instruments of the Arabs, (1866), trans. Farmer
1915. Reprint of original ed. Longwood Press, Maine, USA, 1976. pp. 61-70,
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Farmer, H.G., Historical Facts for the Arabian Musical Influence. Georg Olms Verlag,
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Farmer, H.G., The Sources of Arabian Music. E.J. Brill, Leiden, Netherlands,
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Goldron, Romain, Ancient and Oriental Music, HS. Stuttman Co., USA, 1968.

Hickmann, Hans and Stauder, Wilhelm, Handbuch der Orientalistik: Erste Abteilung,
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Manniche, Lise, Music and Musicians in Ancient Egypt, British Museum Press, London,
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Perkuhn, E.R., Die Theorien zum arabischen Einfluβ auf die europäische Musik des
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Polin, Claire C.J., Music of the Ancient Near East, Greenwood Press Publishers,
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Sachs, Curt, Handbuch der Musikinstrumentenkunde, Georg Olms, Hildesheim, 1967, pp.
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Sachs, Curt, The History of Musical Instruments, W.W. Norton and Co., New York,
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Sachs, Curt, The Rise of Music in the Ancient World, W.W. Norton and Co., USA, 1943,
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Sendrey, Alfred, Music in the Social and Religious Life of Antiquity, Associated
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Shiloah, Amnon, Music in the World of Islam. Wayne State University Press, Michigan,
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Smith, D.A., A History of the Lute from Antiquity to the Renaissance. The Lute Society
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Spring, Matthew, The Lute in Britain. Oxford University Press, New York, USA, 2001.
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Valentin, Erich, Handbuch der Musikinstrumentenkunde, Gustav Bosse Verlag,
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