The origin of musical instruments : an ethnological introduction to the history of instrumental music / by André Schaeffner ; edited and translated by Rachelle Taylor, Ariadne Lih, Emelyn Lih.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schaeffner, André, 1895-1980, author.

Contributor:

Taylor, Rachelle, editor.

Series:

Classic European studies in the science of music.

Classic European studies in the science of music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musical instruments--History.

Musical instruments.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

The work of French musicologist, ethnologist and critic Andre Schaeffner (1895- 1980) grew out of his first organological studies of the history of Western classical instruments in the late 1920s and encapsulated in his wide-ranging Origine des instruments de musique, which captures his studies in Paris between 1931 and 1936. Almost 80 years after its first publication, the scientific relevance and influence of Schaeffner's primary hypothesis--that the origins of music can be traced to the human body through gesture, dance and the movements in the use of musical instruments and their ancestor tools--remains pertinent in fields which have returned to informed speculative and empirical research on the origins of music. This first English edition is accompanied by editorial footnotes and introductory texts, and the influence of Schaeffner's thought on several generations of musicologists makes his work an essential piece of reading for ethnomusicologists, music psychologists, organologists and musicologists interested in the history of their field.

Contents:

Cover

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Plates

List of Tables

Abbreviations

Editors' and Translators' Notes

Prefatory Remarks

Acknowledgements

Preface to the Original Edition

1: Origins of Musical Instruments in the Human Body

2: From Dance Jingles to Castanets

3: From Stamping Tubes to Xylophones

4: The Organology of Theater

5: Working and Playing

6: Religion and Magic

7: Solid Bodies

8: A Genealogy of String Instruments

9: Air Instruments

10: Instruments, the Evolution of Music and the History of Civilization

Appendix: Classification of Musical Instruments

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-02208-4

1-315-55492-5

1-317-02209-2

9781315554921

OCLC:

1140791546