Editing Colin McPhee (section)

{{short description|Canadian composer and ethnomusicologist (1900-1964)}}
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{{Infobox classical composer
| image        = File:Colin_McPhee.jpg
| caption      = Portrait of McPhee by American photographer [[Carl Van Vechten]], {{circa|1935}}
| birth_date   = {{Birth date|1900|3|15}}
| birth_place  = [[Montréal, Québec]], Canada
| death_date   = {{Death date and age|1964|1|7|1900|3|15}}
| death_place  = Los Angeles, California
| occupation   = {{hlist|Composer|ethnomusicologist|teacher}}
| spouse       = {{marriage|Jane Belo|1931|1939|reason=divorced}}
}}

'''Colin Carhart McPhee''' (March 15, 1900 – January 7, 1964) was a Canadian-American composer and [[ethnomusicologist]]. He is best known for being the first Western composer to make a musicological study of [[Bali]],<ref name="KarantonisRobinson2016">{{cite book|author1=Pamela Karantonis|author2=Dylan Robinson|title=Opera Indigene: Re/presenting First Nations and Indigenous Cultures|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hcwoDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA296|date=May 13, 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-08542-3|pages=296–297}}</ref> and to develop [[American gamelan]] along with fellow composer [[Lou Harrison]]. He wrote original music influenced by that of Bali and [[Java]], decades before compositions based on [[world music]] became widespread.