"'Laurence Ernest Rowland Picken"'(16 July 1909--16 March 2000) was a British polymath who made important contributions to the fields of biology and musicology. musicologist. He is best known for his reconstruction of Tang Dynasty music.

Life

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Laurence Picken was born in Nottingham, England. Despite an early interest in and gift for music, Picken studied natural sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge, taking double firsts in 1938.

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Que sais-je?[1] page at Presses universitaires de France.

Verlag C.H. Beck at German Wikipedia [2]

Collection 128 [3]