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The Origin of Musical Instruments - An Ethnological Introduction to the History of Instrumental Music (Hardcover)
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The Origin of Musical Instruments - An Ethnological Introduction to the History of Instrumental Music (Hardcover)
Series: Classic European Studies in the Science of Music
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The work of French musicologist, ethnologist, curator, and critic
Andre Schaeffner (1895 - 1980) grew naturally out of his first
organological studies of the history of Western classical
instruments in the late 1920s and came to be encapsulated in his
monumental and wide-ranging Origine des instruments de musique, the
fruit of labour in Paris and in the field 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 involved 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. Schaeffner's text is an intellectual
link between the studies of Hornbostel and Sachs and the
contrasting research of later generations, notably figures with
which he had direct contact, such as John Blacking and Simha Arom.
More than a simple field guide and system of classification, the
Origin of Musical Instruments is also a profound reflection on the
nature and origins of music and musical activity, as well as the
place of that activity in human society.
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