On Concepts and Classifications of Musical Instruments

Name: On Concepts and Classifications of Musical Instruments
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ISBN: 9780226425498

ISBN-10: 0226425495

ISBN-13: 9780226425498

Edition: 1990

Authors: Margaret J. Kartomi, Stephen Blum

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List price: $49.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/15/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 350
Size: 7.48" wide x 8.94" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Prologue



On the Nature of Classifications of Musical Instruments



Any Classification Is Superior to Chaos



On the Methodology of Classification: Taxonomies, Keys, Paradigms and Typologies



Cognitive Directions: Downward and Upward Grouping



Classification in Societies Oriented toward Literary Transmission



Continuities and Change in Chinese Classifications



Indian and Srilankan Classifications from Ancient to Modern Times



The Priority of Musical over Religious Characters in Grouping Tibetan Monastic Instruments



The Case of Java--Classifications in Oral Tradition and the Recent Development of Literary Schemes



Greek Taxonomical Thought from Archaic to Hellenistic Times



National Identity and Other Themes of Classification in the Arab World



European Classifications from Medieval Times to the Eighteenth Century



The Expanding Concept of Instruments in the West during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries



Upward Classification of Instruments: The Method of the Future?



Classification in Societies Oriented toward Oral Transmission



Parallels between Social Structure and Ensemble Classification in Mandailing



Taxonomical Models of the Instrumentarium and Regional Ensembles in Minangkabau



Groupings Governed by Key Cultural Concepts of the T'boli



The Personification of Instruments in Some West African Classifications



Cognitive Categories, Paradigms, and Taxonomies among the 'Are'are



A Finnish-Karelian Taxonomy as a Historiographical Tool Epilogue: The Seamless Web Notes Bibliography Glossary of Terms Used in Classification Theory


Index