The Origins of Music was first published in German in 1911. In this
text Carl Stumpf set out a path-breaking hypothesis on the earliest
musical sounds in human culture. Alongside his research in such
diverse fields as classical philosophy, acoustics, and mathematics,
Stumpf became one of the most influential psychologists of the late
19th century. He was the founding father of Gestalt psychology, and
collaborated with William James, Edmund Husserl, and Wolfgang
Koehler. This book was the culmination of more than 25 years of
empirical and theoretical research in the field of music. In the
first part, Stumpf discusses the origin and forms of musical
activities as well as various existing theories on the origin of
music, including those of Darwin, Rousseau, Herder, and Spencer. In
the second part of the book, he summarizes his works on the
historical development of instruments and music, and studies a
putatively global range of music from non-European cultures to
demonstrate the psychological principles of tonal organization, as
well as providing a range of cross-cultural musical transcriptions
and analyses. This became a foundation document for comparative
musicology, the elder sibling to modern Ethnomusicology, and the
book provides access to the original recordings Stumpf used in this
process. The Origins of Music is available for the first time in
the English language as a result of a collaboration between the
European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM) and
Oxford University Press. It is a fascinating volume for all those
with an interest in the history of psychology and music. It appears
here in tandem with Self-Portrait,Stumpf's autobiography of 1924,
in which he outlines the rich life experiences behind his research
career alongside his own explanation of his scientific and cultural
legacy.
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