The Wellsprings of Music [Paperback]

One / Thoughts and Methods.- I. Preliminaries.- II. The advent of the ethnomusicologist.- Theology and humanism as fundaments of earlier education ??? early music histories: Martini, Hawkins, Burney, Laborde, Forkel, Krause, F??tis, Hullah, Ambros ??? early non-historical sources: Rousseau and the romantics, Vil-lotteau, Jones, doctoral theses ??? beginnings of modern method with Ellis, Edison and Fewkes-Gilman-Stumpf ??? phonographic archives ??? change of name from comparative musicology to ethnomusicology..- III. The ethnomusicologist???s workshop.- Field work ??? phonograph, gramophone, tape ??? tone measurements ??? acoustical devices: forks, Tonmesser, tonometer, monochord ??? visual devices: oscilloscope, photophonography, stroboscope, electronic counter ??? editing ??? transcribing ??? logarithms and cents ??? savarts ??? Reiner???s music rule ??? notation..- IV. The question of origin.- Theories ??? tone languages ??? mouth music ??? drum languages etc. ??? absence of singing ??? prehistory ??? radio carbon method of dating ??? fluorine method ??? stone and metal ages ??? anthropology ??? culture changes ??? the ??? savages ??? ??? primitive and non-literate man ??? scriptless society and folk music ??? monogenism and polygenism ??? KuHurkreislehre ??? ??? races ???..- Two / Early Music.- V. The oldest music: tumbling strains.- Major and minor ??? tumbling strains or stair melodies ??? high and low ??? domestication ??? triadic and tetradic octaves..- VI. The oldest music: one-step melodies.- Terminology ??? sharping the pitch ??? affixes and infixes ??? tetrachords ??? bare fifths and sixths ??? pathogenic and logogenic ??? meaningless syllables ??? burdens ??? glossolalia ??? repetitive style ??? flexa ??? ontological remarks ??? imitation and dramatization ??? animal dirges or epikkedia..- VII. Conservatism and magic.- Palaeolithic survivals ??? the fight of music and poetry- strict tradition ??? magic ??? charms against sickness, death and dearth ??? malƒQ