On Concepts and Classifications of Musical Instruments / Edition 1

by Margaret J. Kartomi

Overview

Kartomi first moves through a culture-specific inspection of several societies in Europe, Asia, and Africa, and then, synthesizing current ethnomusicological trends, proceeds to make a large-scale comparative study of classification schemes and the concepts which govern them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226425498
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	11/15/1990
Series:	Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
Edition description:	1
Pages:	349
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Margaret J. Kartomi is professor and chairperson in the Department of Music at Monash University in Melbourne. She is a specialist in organology and in the music of Southeast Asia.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue
I. On the Nature of Classifications of Musical Instruments
1. Any Classification Is Superior to Chaos
2. On the Methodology of Classification: Taxonomies, Keys, Paradigms and Typologies
3. Cognitive Directions: Downward and Upward Grouping
II. Classification in Societies Oriented toward Literary Transmission
4. Continuities and Change in Chinese Classifications
5. Indian and Srilankan Classifications from Ancient to Modern Times
6. The Priority of Musical over Religious Characters in Grouping Tibetan Monastic Instruments
7. The Case of Java—Classifications in Oral Tradition and the Recent Development of Literary Schemes
8. Greek Taxonomical Thought from Archaic to Hellenistic Times
9. National Identity and Other Themes of Classification in the Arab World
10. European Classifications from Medieval Times to the Eighteenth Century
11. The Expanding Concept of Instruments in the West during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
12. Upward Classification of Instruments: The Method of the Future?
III. Classification in Societies Oriented toward Oral Transmission
13. Parallels between Social Structure and Ensemble Classification in Mandailing
14. Taxonomical Models of the Instrumentarium and Regional Ensembles in Minangkabau
15. Groupings Governed by Key Cultural Concepts of the T'boli
16. The Personification of Instruments in Some West African Classifications
17. Cognitive Categories, Paradigms, and Taxonomies among the 'Are'are
18. A Finnish-Karelian Taxonomy as a Historiographical Tool
Epilogue: The Seamless Web
Notes
Bibliography
Glossary of Terms Used in Classification Theory
Index