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The Islamic Manuscript Association, in collaboration with the RoyalAsiaticSociety of Great Britain and Ireland, is pleased to announce a lecture byProfessor Owen Wright entitled 'Musicin Words: the Manuscript Tradition ofthe Middle East'. Owen Wright is Research Professor of Musicology of theMiddleEast at the School of Oriental and African Studies, and haspublished widely on this subject. This free public lecturewill offer anintroduction to the study of Middle Eastern musical manuscripts, focusingon Arabic, Turkish and Persianexamples and including selected soundrecordings.The lecture will take place at 6.30pm on Thursday 23 May at theRoyalAsiatic Society, 14 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HD. Refreshments will beoffered after the lecture. For moreinformation please contact:admin@islamicmanuscript.org or 01223 303 177. For more information aboutthe IslamicManuscript Association, please see: www.islamicmanuscript.org.