The History Of Music And Musical Instruments In Europe

The History of Music and Musical Instruments in Europe: Prehistory Through the Renaissance, is an in-depth, clear-cut, and incisive look into the history of music and musical instruments in all parts of Europe. The book gives an in-depth look not only into the music and musical instruments that were played from prehistory through the Renaissance but also a break down of the history of Europe and what the people of Europe and their culture was like when they played these instruments. The book features over 90 plates and a well-organized chronology. This book includes music and musical instrument finds from the European Paleolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Ancient History, Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Archeological discoveries, ancient texts about music, and visual depictions of musical instruments are well analyzed, and many new discoveries of ancient musical instruments and theories of their origins in Europe are given throughout. This historical narrative is fascinating, thrilling, and stays true to its insightful writings about music and musical instruments in Europe before the Baroque period.

The aim of this study is to increase understanding of folk music within an historical, European framework, and to show the genre as a dynamic and changing art form. The book addresses a plethora of questions through its detailed examination of a wide range of music from vastly different national and cultural identities. It attempts to elucidate the connections between, and the varying development of, the music of peoples throughout Europe, firstly by examining the ways in which scholars of different ideological and artistic ambitions have collected, studied and performed folk music, then by investigating the relationship between folk and popular music. Jan Ling is Professor of Musicology at Göteborg University, Sweden.

List of Collections, bibliographical summary, classification of instruments. Autophonic, membranophonic, chordophonic, aerophonic, and electrophonic instruments.

An incisive look into the development of musical instruments, beginning with an investigation of the musical traditions of principal ancient civilizations, the text then moves on to more modern types of instruments and their evolution of sound.

The work of French musicologist, ethnologist and critic Andre Schaeffner (1895- 1980) grew out of his first organological studies of the history of Western classical instruments in the late 1920s and encapsulated in his wide-ranging Origine des instruments de musique, which captures his studies in Paris between 1931 and 1936. Almost 80 years after its first publication, the scientific relevance and influence of Schaeffner's primary hypothesis--that the origins of music can be traced to the human body through gesture, dance and the movements in the use of musical instruments and their ancestor tools--remains pertinent in fields which have returned to informed speculative and empirical research on the origins of music. This first English edition is accompanied by editorial footnotes and introductory texts, and the influence of Schaeffner's thought on several generations of musicologists makes his work an essential piece of reading for ethnomusicologists, music psychologists, organologists and musicologists interested in the history of their field.

A survey of the origins and development of musical instruments world-wide from Paleolithic times to the present day. Illustrated with pictures of several hundred instruments from all over the world on 120 plates, with five maps for ease of reference to exotic places.

Through an in-depth study of instruments and illustrations from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the author pieces together information on instruments available to early musicians and the religious and secular purposes for which they were used.

Chronologically arranged, it studies instruments of some 25,000 years from the clay drums of the stone age to electronic synthesizers.