Check out "Musica Stampata - Serving the Music Community W…"

Click Here: <A HREF="http://www.musicastampata.com/pages/composi.html">Musica
Stampata - Serving the Music Community W…</A>

http://www.musicastampata.com/pages/composi.html

If you can read a lil Italian, this site - partly in English (have no
fear monolinguals) is a pretty good basic resource IMHO

---
Hanuman Zhang, _Gomi no sensei_ [Master of junk]

Voices of the Past:
http://advancement.uark.edu/pubs/Research_Frontiers/fall_2001/05_Feature1.html

At its peak, the Tang Dynasty (618-906 CE) of China stretched from
Turkish city-states in the West to Japan in the East, & from Siberian tribes in the
North to Vietnam in the South.
This created a mixture of cultural influences that were reflected in the
music of the times.People traveled from other countries, including Japan,
Mongolia, India, Korea & Turkey, to learn about the Tang culture.
But the multi-racial, multi-cultural era waned at the end of the
Tang.China,one of the greatest cultural & military powers in history, began to close
in on itself, the rulers closed the country's borders - fearing the destruction
of their civilization.The rich, diverse music of the Tang, along with that of
the surrounding cultures, was lost or destroyed. Bits have been found & the
rest is theory & re-construction...
The power of education & culture to transcend social and political
differences is still largely untapped...