YUSOF ISHAK INSTITUTE NALANDA-SRIWIJAYA CENTRE WORKING PAPER SERIES NO. 24 MUSICAL TERMS IN MALAY CLASSICAL LITERATURE: THE EARLY PERIOD (14TH–17TH CENTURY) Arsenio Nicolas YUSOF ISHAK INSTITUTE NALANDA-SRIWIJAYA CENTRE WORKING PAPER SERIES NO. 24 (January 2017) MUSICAL TERMS IN MALAY CLASSICAL LITERATURE: THE EARLY PERIOD (14TH–17TH CENTURY) Arsenio Nicolas Arsenio Nicolas is currently teaching graduate courses at the College of Music, Mahasarakham University, Thailand and is a member of the Editorial Board of the new Online SPAFA Journal. He has conducted extended field music research since 1973 in the Philippines, Java, Bali, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Japan and the United States, with funding from the University of the Philippines, the Indonesian Government, National University of Malaysia, the Ford Foundation, National Museum of Ethnology (Osaka), the Japan Foundation, the Nippon Foundation, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Cornell University, SEAMEO-SPAFA Bangkok, and Mahasarakham University. His current project is on Music Archaeology and History of Southeast Asia. Website: http://mahasarakham.academia.edu/ArsenioNicolas. Email:
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