Scholarly Publications of Bo Lawergren (sole author unless otherwise indicated)


80    “Iranian music, 3000 B.C. to 1500 A.D.,” Encyclopædia Iranica, ed. E. Yarshater (to appear 2006).

 

79    “The Musical Framework of Raigō Images,” Plainsong and Medieval Music (to be published 2006).

 

78    The Qin: From Central Asia to Central China,Jiang han kaogu [Journal of the Hubei Provincial Museum] (to appear in Chinese 2006)

 

77    Oxus trumpet,” Encyclopædia Iranica, ed. E. Yarshater (2005).

 

76    “Neolithic Drums in China,  in Studien zur Musik Archäologie v.  Eds. E. Hickmann and R. Eichmann.  Deutsches Archäologisches Institut; Orient-Abteilung; Orient-Archäologie (to appear in 2006).

75    “Iconography of the Chinese Qin zither,” Music in Art (to appear in 2006).

 

74    “Harps on the Ancient Silk Road,“ Proceedings of Conservation of Ancient Sites on the Silk Road: Second International Conference on the Conservation of Grotto Sites held at Dunhuang, China, July 2005.  Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute and Dunhuang Academy (to appear in 2006).

 

73    “Etruscan Musical Culture and its Wider Greek and Italian Context,” Etruscan Studies 10 (to appear 2006).

 

72    “How Qin-zithers changed between 500 bce and 500 ce,” pp. 295 – 310 in Studien zur Musik Archäologie iv, eds. E. Hickmann and R. Eichmann.  Deutsches Archäologisches Institut; Orient-Abteilung; Orient-Archäologie 15 (2004).

 

71    Sichou Zhi Lu Yueqi Kao” [in Chinese = “The Dynamics of Musical Instruments on the Ancient Silk Road”], Jiaoxiang [Journal of Xi’an Conservatory of Music, Xi’an] 2004.3, 49-54.

 

70    “The Acoustical Context of Oxus Trumpets,” Proceedings of ISMA 2004 (International Symposium on Musical Acoustics), March 31st to April 3rd, 2004, in Nara, Japan. The symposium papers are given on CD-ROM  [ISBN4-9980602-4-4], which can be purchased at http://www2.nict.go.jp/jt/a132/ISMA2004/proceedings.html.

 

69    “Bazeleike de gudai shuqin” [in Chinese = “The Ancient Harp from Pazyryk”], Yinyue Yanjiu [=Music Research, Journal of the People’s Music Publishing House, Beijing] 113 (2004.2) 94 – 101.

 

68    “Western Influences on the Early Chinese Qin-Zither,” Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 75 (2003) 79–109.

 

67    “Harp (çang),” Encyclopædia Iranica, ed. E. Yarshater 12: 1 (2003) 7 – 13.

 

66    “Oxus Trumpets, ca. 2200 – 1800 bce: Material Overview, Usage, Societal Role, and Catalog,” Iranica Antiqua 38 (2003) 41 – 118.

 

65    “Metamorphosis of the Qin, 500 bce ce 500,” Orientations 34 (May 2003) 31   38.

                                                                           

64    “Harps, Lutes and Music Along the Silk Road: A First Millennium Migration,” pp.  52   55 in The Silk Road Project.  Arts and Humanities Programs at Cal Performances, University of California, Berkeley, April 2002.  Berkeley: Cal Performances, 2003.

63    “Les instruments à cordes chinois de 500 av. J.-C. à 500 apr. J.-C.,” pp. 114–121 in Archéologie et musique; actes du colloque des 9 et 10 février 2001.  Les cahiers du musée de la musique.  Paris: Musée de la musique, 2002.

 

62    Waisted Drums in Ancient China and Eurasia,” pp. 115 – 120 in Nomads, Traders and Holy Men Along China’s Silk Road; Papers presented at a symposium held at The Asia Society of New York, November 9 – 10, 2001, eds. Annette L. Juliano and Judith A. Lerner.  Turnhout: Brepols, 2002.

 

61    “An Introduction to Oxus Trumpets, ca. 2000 B.C.,” pp. 519   525 in Studien zur Musik Archäologie iii.   Eds. E. Hickmann, A.D. Kilmer and R. Eichmann.  Deutsches Archäologisches Institut; Orient-Abteilung; Orient-Archäologie 10.  Rahden: Marie Leidorf, 2002.

 

60    “Harp (ancient),” pp. 881 – 888 & 894 – 896 in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians2 (=  New Grove ii), eds. S. Sadie and J. Tyrrell.  London: Macmillan, 2001.

 

59    “Parthian empire,” New Grove ii, vol. 19 (2001) 172   173.

 

58    “Lyre (ancient),” New Grove ii, vol. 15 (2001) 421   424.

 

57    Iran (ancient),” New Grove ii, vol. 12 (2001) 521   530.

 

56    “Music,” pp. 450   454 in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, ed. D.B. Redford.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

 

55    “A ‘Cycladic’ Harpist in The Metropolitan Museum of Art,” Source 19 (2000) 2   9.

 

54    “Incongruous Musical Instruments on a Beaker of Alleged Assyrian Manufacture,” Source 19 (2000) 38   42.

 

53    “Strings,” pp. 65 – 85 in Music in the Age of Confucius, ed. Jenny F. So.  Washington: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Seattle/London: University of Washington Press, 2000.

 

52    “Music in the Buddhist and Pre-Buddhist Worlds,” pp. 585 – 593 in History of Civilizations of Central Asia 4:2.  The Age of Achievement: A.D. 750 to the End of the Fifteenth Century; The Achievements, eds. C.E. Bosworth and M.S. Asimov.  Paris: UNESCO, 2000.

 

51    “Extant Silver Pipes from Ur, 2450 bc,” pp. 121 – 132 in Studien zur Musik Archäologie ii:  Musikarchäologie früher Metallzeiten der Welt.  Eds. E. Hickmann, I. Laufs, and R. Eichmann.  Deutsches Archäologisches Institut; Orient-Abteilung; Orient-Archäologie 7.  Rahden: Leidorf, 2000.

 

50    “The Beginning and End of Angular Harps,” pp. 53 – 64 in Studien zur Musik Archäologie i: Saiteninstrumente im archäologischen Kontext, Eds. E. Hickmann and R. Eichmann.   Deutsches Archäologisches Institut; Orient-Abteilung; Orient-Archäologie 6.  Rahden, Leidorf, 2000.

 

49    “Distinctions among Canaanite, Philistine, and Israelite Lyres, and their Global Lyrical Contexts,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 309 (1998) 41   68.

 

48    “To Tune a String: Dichotomies and Diffusions between the Near and Far East,” pp. 175 – 192 in Ultra Terminum Vagari.  Scritti in onore di Carl Nylander, eds. B. Magnusson, S. Renzetti, P. Vian, and S.J. Voicu.  Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 1997.

 

47    “Harmonics of S-motion on Bowed Strings,” pp. 177 – 182 in Research Papers in Violin Acoustics 1975 – 1993, ed. C.M. Hutchins (Woodbury: Acoustical Society of America & American Institute of Physics, 1996).  Reprint from Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 73 (1983) 2174 – 2179 (no. 27 below).

 

46    “The Spread of Harps Between the Near and Far East During the First Millennium A.D.: Evidence of Buddhist Musical Cultures on the Silk Road,” Silk Road Art and Archaeology 4 (1996) 233 – 275.

 

45    Mesopotamien [archaeological],” pp. 143 – 171 in vol. 6 of  Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (= MGG2), ed. L. Finscher.  Kassel: Bärenreiter-Verlag & Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag, 1997.

 

44    “Leier,” MGG2, vol. 5 (1996) 1011 – 1038.

 

43    “Harfe,” MGG2, vol. 4 (1996) 39 – 62.

 

42    Buddhismus,” MGG2, vol. 2 (1995) 223 – 235.

 

41    “Buddha as a Musician,” Artibus Asiae liv (1994) 226 – 240.

 

40    “Counting Strings on Ancient Egyptian Chordophones,” pp. 519-533 in La pluridisciplinarité en archeologie musicale, ed. C. Homo-Lechner and A. Bélis.  Paris: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, 1994.

 

39    “Lyres in the West (Italy, Greece) and the East (Egypt, the Near East), ca. 2000   400 b.c.,” Opuscula Romana xix: 6 (1993) 55 –  76.

 

38    “The Ancient Harp of Pazyryk – a Bowed Instrument?” pp. 101-116 in Foundations of Empire, Archaeology and Art of the Eurasian Steppes, ed. G. Seaman.  Los Angeles: University of Southern California Press, 1992.

 

37    “The Ancient Harp from Pazyryk,” Beiträge zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Archäologie  9/10 (1990) 111 – 118.

 

36    “The Role of Vertical disparity in the Scaling of Stereoscopic Depth Perception: An Empirical and Theoretical Study,” B. Gillam, D. Chambers, and B. Lawergren, Perception & Psychophysics 44 (1988) 473   484.

 

35    “Ancient Mesopotamian Terminology of Harps and Sound Holes,” O.R. Gurney and Bo Lawergren, pp. 175-187 in The Archaeology of Early Music Cultures, eds. E. Hickmann and D.W. Hughes, 175 – 187.  Bonn: Verlag für systematische Musikwissenschaft GmbH, 1988.

 

34    “Il piacere dell'orecchio,” Archeo 41 (July 1988).

 

33    “The Origins of Musical Instruments and Sounds,” Anthropos 83 (1988) 31   45.

 

32    “Sound Holes and Geometrical Figures, Clues to the Terminology of Ancient Mesopotamian Harps,” Bo Lawergren and O.R. Gurney.  Iraq 49 (1987) 37 – 52.

       

31    “The Harp of the Ancient Altai People,” pp. 163-177 in Proceedings of the Second Conference of the ICTM-Study Group on Music Archaeology, Stockholm (1984) I, ed. C. Stomberg-Lund.  Stockholm: Royal Swedish Academy of Music, 1986.

 

30    “A lyre common to Etruria, Greece, and Anatolia: The Cylinder Kithara,” Acta Musicologica 57 (1985) 25 – 33.

 

29    “The Cylinder Kithara in Etruria, Greece, and Anatolia,” Imago Musicae 1 (1984) 147 – 174.

 

28    “The Induced Effect, Vertical Disparity, and Stereoscopic Theory,” B.J. Gillam, and B. Lawergren.  Perception & Psychophysics 34 (1983) 121 – 130.

 

27    “Harmonics of S-motion on Bowed Strings,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 73 (1983) 2174 – 2179.

 

26    “Acoustics of Musical Bows,” Acustica 51 (1982) 63 – 65.

 

25    “Acoustics and Evolution of Arched Harps,” The Galpin Society Journal 34 (1981) 110 – 129.

 

24    “Reconstruction of a Shoulder Harp in the British Museum,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 66 (1980) 165 – 168.

 

23    “On the motion of the bowed violin string,” Acustica 44 (1980) 194 – 206.

 

22    “A new and a rediscovered type of motion of the bowed violin string, or, how bowing position effects the shape and the sound of the string,” The Catgut Acoustical Society Newsletter 30 (1978) 8 – 13.

 

21    “Regional intestinal absorptive capacities for triolein: an alternative to markers,” Susanne Bennett Clark, Bo Lawergren and Jill V. Martin.  American Journal of Physiology 225 (1973) 574 – 585.

 

20    “Gamma-ray spectra and cross sections for the capture of 14 MeV neutrons,” Michael Stamatelatos, Bo Lawergren and Leon J. Lidofsky.  Nuclear Science and Engineering 51 (1973) 113 – 118.

 

19    “Deformation trends among nuclei with 24 < A < 30: the (3He, p) and (3He, p() reactions on 24Mg, 26Mg, and 28Si,” B. Lawergren and J. Beyea.  Physical Review 6C (1972) 2082 – 2090.

 

18    “E2-M1 mixing in the ( decay of the 1.37 MeV state in 28Al,” Physical Review 6C (1972) 1691 – 1693.

 

16    “K=1/2 and K=5/2 components in the ground state of  27Al,” B.T. Lawergren, G.C. Neilson and J.L. Honsaker.  Physics Letters 30B (1969) 470 – 472.

 

17    “Nuclear structure effects in the ( decay of isobaric analog states in Mg24, Al27, and Si28 ,” B. Lawergren, I.J. Taylor, and M. Nessin.  Physical Review 1C (1970) 994 – 999.

 

15    “The effect of the isospin selection rule on dipole transitions in 24Mg and 28Si,” Nuclear Physics A111 (1968) 652 – 656.

 

14    “States with T=1 in 20Ne, 24Mg and 28Si,” B.T. Lawergren, A.T.G. Ferguson and G.C. Morrison.  Nuclear Physics A108 (1968) 325 – 336.

 

13    “Excitation of isobaric analogue states in the 27Al(d, n)28Si reaction,” B. Lawergren, G.C. Morrison and A.T.G. Ferguson.  Nuclear Physics 106 (1968) 455 – 463.

 

12    “A high resolution measurement of the 14C(d, n)15N reaction,” B. Lawergren and I.V. Mitchell.  Nuclear Physics A98 (1967) 481 – 488.

 

11    “The 2s1/2 component in the ground states of some nuclei in the 16 < A < 36 region,” Physics Letters 24B (1967) 395 – 396.

 

10    “The spin of the 974 keV level in 28Al,” Nuclear Physics A96 (1967) 49 – 51.

9      “The 26Mg(d, n)27Al reaction,” Nuclear Physics A90 (1967) 311 – 320.

 

8      “An isobaric analogue state in Al27 and the role of configurational excitation,” Physics Letters 13 (1964) 61 – 63.

 

7      “The low-lying levels of Al27 (II), the 3 MeV doublet levels,” Nuclear Physics 53 (1964) 417 – 428.

 

6      “The low-lying levels of Al27 (I),” T.R.Ophel and B.T. Lawergren.  Nuclear Physics 52 (1964) 417 – 436.

 

5      “The decay of Mg27 ,” T.R. Ophel and B.T. Lawergren.  Physics Letters 6 (1963) 230 – 231.

 

4      “The 2.21 MeV level of Al27 ,” B.T. Lawergren and T.R. Ophel.  Physics Letters 2 (1962) 265.

 

3      “The 661 keV resonance of the Mg26(p, () reaction,” T.R. Ophel and B.T. Lawergren.  Physics Letters  2 (1962) 167 – 168.

 

2      “The de-excitation of the 3 MeV doublet in 27Al,” B.T. Lawergren and T.R. Ophel.  Proceedings of the Physical Society 79 (1962) 881 – 882.

 

1      “The 721, 809 and 954 keV resonances of the 26Mg(p, () reaction,” T.R. Ophel and B.T. Lawergren.  Nuclear Physics 30 (1962) 215 – 226.

 

 

Book reviews

3      Two Lyres from Ur, by Maude de Schauensee.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002.  Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (November 2005).

 

2      Music in Ancient Israel/Palestine: Archaeological, Written, and Comparative Sources, by Joachim Braun.  Translated by Douglas W. Stott, from German.  Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2002.  Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 332 (2003) 100 – 102.

 

1      The British Museum Yearbook 4: Music and Civilisation, ed. T.C. Mitchell.  London: The British Museum, 1980.  The Galpin Society Journal xxxv (1982) 164 – 169.

 

Record review

The Sounds of Prehistoric Scandinavia;  Drevneishii muzikal’nii kompleks iz kostei mamonta;  Musique de la Grèce antique.  Ethnomusicogy 29 (1985) 360–363.