He also produced a single music inventory devoted to Western composers.
The question of when Western composers first began to select octatonic scales as primary compositional material is difficult to determine.
Now, it hopes to translate and distribute works about prominent Western composers.
In modern times the friction drum has been used by several Western composers.
The music is dizzying, as intricate as anything Western minimalist composers have come up with.
Indeed this has been an effort also undertaken by some Western composers, notably the Minimalists.
They use a lot of 20th-century Western composers' devices, but much of their material is drawn from ancient instruments.
Small busts of Western classical composers lined a shelf.
Western composers may use the interval to give a passage an exotic flavor.
He was one of the first Western composers to write for the sitar and other Indian instruments.