Bali

*A House in Bali, by Colin McPhee (1947). The book should be called "An Anthropological Brahms goes to Bali." In the 1930s Canadian musicologist Colin McPhee became enchanted by the clear, metallic music of the gamelan, a xylophone-like instrument indigenous to Indonesia. He returned from the country's rice paddies years later with this lovingly composed tribute to the people and music of a faraway Hindu paradise.