Erich Moritz Von Hornbostel
Biographic Data
| ID | 3993951 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erich Moritz Von Hornbostel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erich Moritz |
| FAMILY NAME | Von Hornbostel |
| SIGNATURE | VON HORNBOSTEL E M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1924 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Instruments, classification of
Suggested Methods for the Transcription of Exotic Music
Les AA. proposent une notation standard de la musique exotique : le ton (portee, cles, bemol et diese), le phrase et la couleur tonale, la notation du « melisma », le volume, l'organisation rythmique, le tempo, le regroupement des motifs melodiques, les variantes, les pieces polyphoniques, les textes des chants et le titre sont pris en consideration. Des techniques de transcription et de mesure sont presentees avant d'effectuer un ensemble d'eval…
Classification of Music Instruments
The Music of the Fuegians
Chama String Games (Peru)
Gunther Tessmann, Erich M. von Hornbostel, Kathleen Haddon, Chama String Games (Peru), The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 69, No. 2 (1939), pp. 163-186
Fuegian Songs
The Ethnology of African Sound-Instruments. Comments on Geist und Werden der Musikinstrumente by C. Sachs
Musical instruments are in so far of importance for cultural research as they partake, in an almost unparalleled degree, of the nature of both material and mental culture. They can be seen and handled and, in addition to this advantage, possess many qualities unconnected with their immediate purpose; purity, copiousness, and beauty of sound are historically the latest properties sought after, and aimed at technically. (For purposes of research ev…
The Ethnology of African Sound-Instruments
Ankermann has confined his investigations to the distribution of instruments within Africa, and the only idiophones of which he takes account are slit-drums, bells, the xylophone, and the sansa. Sachs arrives at his strata I-II by considering the length of the eastern dispersal-radius (from Asia by way of Oceania to America), without including the African occurrences; though, conversely, he arranges some later strata according to the African dist…
African Negro Music
The purport of this article is to provide an answer to the following questions:1. What is African music like as compared to our own?2. How can it be made use of in Church and School?The answer might be as brief as the questions:1. African and (modern) European music are constructed on entirely different principles, and therefore2. they cannot be fused into one, but only the one or the other can be used without compromise.The attention of most of …
Musique Négro-Africaine
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Receptionsorgane I
Sammelbände für vergleichende Musikwissenschaft. 4. Band
African Negro Music
The purport of this article is to provide an answer to the following questions:1. What is African music like as compared to our own?2. How can it be made use of in Church and School?The answer might be as brief as the questions:1. African and (modern) European music are constructed on entirely different principles, and therefore2. they cannot be fused into one, but only the one or the other can be used without compromise.The attention of most of …
The Ethnology of African Sound-Instruments
Ankermann has confined his investigations to the distribution of instruments within Africa, and the only idiophones of which he takes account are slit-drums, bells, the xylophone, and the sansa. Sachs arrives at his strata I-II by considering the length of the eastern dispersal-radius (from Asia by way of Oceania to America), without including the African occurrences; though, conversely, he arranges some later strata according to the African dist…
Suggested Methods for the Transcription of Exotic Music
Les AA. proposent une notation standard de la musique exotique : le ton (portee, cles, bemol et diese), le phrase et la couleur tonale, la notation du « melisma », le volume, l'organisation rythmique, le tempo, le regroupement des motifs melodiques, les variantes, les pieces polyphoniques, les textes des chants et le titre sont pris en consideration. Des techniques de transcription et de mesure sont presentees avant d'effectuer un ensemble d'eval…
The Music of the Fuegians
Chama String Games (Peru)
Gunther Tessmann, Erich M. von Hornbostel, Kathleen Haddon, Chama String Games (Peru), The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 69, No. 2 (1939), pp. 163-186
The Ethnology of African Sound-Instruments. Comments on Geist und Werden der Musikinstrumente by C. Sachs
Musical instruments are in so far of importance for cultural research as they partake, in an almost unparalleled degree, of the nature of both material and mental culture. They can be seen and handled and, in addition to this advantage, possess many qualities unconnected with their immediate purpose; purity, copiousness, and beauty of sound are historically the latest properties sought after, and aimed at technically. (For purposes of research ev…
Fuegian Songs
Sammelbände für vergleichende Musikwissenschaft. 4. Band
Receptionsorgane I
African Negro Music
The purport of this article is to provide an answer to the following questions:1. What is African music like as compared to our own?2. How can it be made use of in Church and School?The answer might be as brief as the questions:1. African and (modern) European music are constructed on entirely different principles, and therefore2. they cannot be fused into one, but only the one or the other can be used without compromise.The attention of most of …
Musique Négro-Africaine
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Ethnology of African Sound-Instruments. Comments on Geist und Werden der Musikinstrumente by C. Sachs
Musical instruments are in so far of importance for cultural research as they partake, in an almost unparalleled degree, of the nature of both material and mental culture. They can be seen and handled and, in addition to this advantage, possess many qualities unconnected with their immediate purpose; purity, copiousness, and beauty of sound are historically the latest properties sought after, and aimed at technically. (For purposes of research ev…
The Ethnology of African Sound-Instruments
Ankermann has confined his investigations to the distribution of instruments within Africa, and the only idiophones of which he takes account are slit-drums, bells, the xylophone, and the sansa. Sachs arrives at his strata I-II by considering the length of the eastern dispersal-radius (from Asia by way of Oceania to America), without including the African occurrences; though, conversely, he arranges some later strata according to the African dist…
Fuegian Songs
Chama String Games (Peru)
Gunther Tessmann, Erich M. von Hornbostel, Kathleen Haddon, Chama String Games (Peru), The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 69, No. 2 (1939), pp. 163-186
The Music of the Fuegians
Classification of Music Instruments
Suggested Methods for the Transcription of Exotic Music
Les AA. proposent une notation standard de la musique exotique : le ton (portee, cles, bemol et diese), le phrase et la couleur tonale, la notation du « melisma », le volume, l'organisation rythmique, le tempo, le regroupement des motifs melodiques, les variantes, les pieces polyphoniques, les textes des chants et le titre sont pris en consideration. Des techniques de transcription et de mesure sont presentees avant d'effectuer un ensemble d'eval…
Instruments, classification of
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