# Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Byron Dueck, with thanks to Maiko Kawabata, Saeid Kordmafi (section on Arab music), Eshantha Peiris, and Lilian Simones for their comments and criticism. Any errors or omissions are the responsibility of the author. If you have a concern or notice an error, please contact the author at byron.dueck@open.ac.uk

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Course image: © Paul Tomlins. All rights reserved. 2024/Bridgeman Images

Figure 2: Google Maps Screenshot: Map data © 2024 Google. geoBasis DE/BKG (2009). Inst Geogr National

Figure 9: Map showing the Central African Republic and the Republic of the Congo (to be distinguished from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the south and east of it) Map data © 2024 Google

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Figure 11: Five pitches as played by the Gamelan Saléndro ensemble https://archive.org/details/GuideToSundaneseMusic/page/n9/mode/2up https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/

Figure 12: Samir Joubran from Le Trio Joubran playing an ‘ūd © Paul Tomlins. All rights reserved. 2024/Bridgeman Images

Figure 13: The qānūn © Philippe Lissac/Godong/Bridgeman Images

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