The Origin of Musical Instruments: An Ethnological Introduction to the History of Instrumental Music
- Author: Schaeffner, Andre
- Editor: Taylor, Rachelle
Book
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Contents
- Editors' and Translators' Notes
- Rachelle Taylor, Ariadne Lih, Emelyn Lih
- Prefatory Remarks
- Jean-Jacques Nattiez
- Preface to the Original Edition
- Andre Schaeffner
- 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: Rigid, Flexible, or Tensioned
- 8 A Genealogy of String Instruments
- 9 Air Instruments
- 10 Instruments, the Evolution of Music, and the History of Civilization