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22\JontlanAItJlen an fiQlt\tfif~en Or~e~ttfb\cren 823Klui lek2 Pauken(Klui-lek­Phonogramm)Klui yaiKong lekKong yai2 Pauken(Ranat ek­Phono g r amm)Ranat ek2 Pauken{Orchester-Phonogr amm}Ranat thumCylinder 12 - Demonstrations -Sammlung Nr. 12instrumentation. The first two were thenre-recorded with each pair of melody instrumentsplaying separately since, whenrecorded tutti, the individual parts are almostimpossible to distinguish. Stumpfpublished the first of these two orchestralpieces in score and the two songs in "Tonsystemund Musik der Siamesen," Beitragezu Akustik und Musikwissenschaft, III (1901),reprinted in Sammelbande fur vergleichendeMusikwissenschaft, I {1922}. The reproducedtranscription was made by von Hornbosteland published in his" Formanalysen ansiamesischen Orchesterstucken," ArchivfUr Musikwissenschaft, II (1920), 322-323.The recording heard is a tutti performance.The score, however, is a reconstruction.The melody parts were transcribed fromthe performances by pairs of instrumentsand then combined· in the score. On a specialreprint of this study in the library of theBerlin Phonogramm-Archiv is found thefollowing handwritten dedication by vonHornbostel, referring to the origins of thatinstitution: "To Geheimrat Stumpf, withgratitude for the primum movens of theArchive and of this research ...Due to the length of the transcriptiononly the third score is reproduced. Thefirst measure of this score {measure 9}coincides with the nineteenth second of thepiece. The identification of the instrumentsto the left has been copied from the fir stscore. Klui are beak-flutes , kong areglockenspiel, and ranat are xylophone. Yaiand lek mean large and small, respectively;ek and thurn, high and low.- C-c; 152 rpm; FB-IOO, FT-6KC;EB +2, ET -5; extreme surface noise;sudden ending, fade -in.Band 9. Cylinder 14. Scherman, Burma--28 {43; August 7, 1911; Mandalay}.Two orchestral pieces: "Pwe" of theMingala-Aungbyun tribe, and "MaungPathet." Typical theatre music. Theterm "Pwe" refers specifically to a theatreplay but also to festivity in generaL Aparticular instrumental ensemble, alwayscontaining a set of drums, and found onlyin Burma, is utilized in the theatre. LucianScherman, the Director of the Royal EthnographicMuseum in Munich at the time therecording was made, had undertaken anexpedition with his wife into this Southeast­Asian country which had scarcely beenvisited by ethnologists before this time.Scherman had asked that someone on the