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245 14 a| The history of musical instruments /c| Curt Sachs.;

300 a| 505 pages, 24 leaves of plates :b| illustrations ;c| 25 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-487) and index.;

505 0 a| First part: The primitive and prehistoric epoch. Early instruments. Motor impulses. The "invention of instruments" ; Rhythm ; Slapping the body ; Rattles ; Sounding amulets ; Shamanic rites ; Stampers ; Rice ceremonials ; Slit-drums ; The teetering tree ; The sand drum ; Drums ; Wood-cutters' and clay modelers' forms -- Ritual functions. Drums (continued) ; Shaman's drumming ; Construction rites ; The sacred drum-yard ; Symbolism of the drum ; Symbolism of the drum stick ; Slit-drum (continued) ; Drum language ; The earliest wind instruments ; The ribbon reed ; Weather charm ; Friction instruments ; Girls' initiations ; The bull-roarer ; Woman's taboo ; The scraper ; Love charm ; Flutes ; Phallic rites ; Nose flutes ; Nostril and astrology ; Trumpets ; Solar rites ; Shell trumpets ; Sex connotations -- Melodic impulses. Reduplication in language and music ; 'Father and mother' ; Stamping tubes ; Xylophone ; Marimba music ; Ground harp ; Ground-zither ; Musical bow ; Intimacy and meditation ; The jaws' harp -- The chronology of early instruments. Simplicity and complication ; Cultural level and form of civilization ; Prehistory and anthropology ; Geographic method ; Relation or parallelism ; The three main strata --;

505 0 a| Second part: Antiquity. Sumer and Babylonia. History ; Languages ; Script ; Idiophonic instruments ; Toys ; Pipes ; Horns and trumpets ; King Tushratta's gift ; Drums ; 'The great bull's hide' ; Sumer and Japan ; Divination ; Feeding the drum ; Moon rites ; Sacrifices ; Sumer and East Africa ; Lyres ; Lyre playing ; Harps ; Harp playing ; Orchestration ; Harmony ; Lutes ; King Nebuchadnezzar's orchestra -- Egypt. From prehistory to the end of the middle kingdom. Prehistoric contact with Sumer ; History ; Script ; Clappers and concussion-sticks ; Arbeit und Rhythmus ; Sistrum ; Hathor and Isis ; Flutes and clarinets ; Glass blowers' technique ; Harps ; Drawing and photography ; Drums ; Egypt and India -- From the new kingdom to the Greek epoch. The empire ; New style in music ; Oboes ; In search of the scale ; Trumpets, stringed instruments and idiophones ; Foreign instruments in high civilizations -- Israel. The nomadic epoch. Primitive character ; Ugab ; King David's kinnor ; The women's timbrel ; The high priest's bell ; The magic shofar ; The two silver trumpets -- The time of the kings. The academy of religious music ; Music in the temple ; Stringed and wind instruments ; Sistrum and cymbals ; The controversy of the organ ; The headings of the Psalms -- Greece, Rome and Etruria. Fine art and music ; Lyres and the musical system of antiquity ; The harp and anacreon ; Lutes and zithers ; Pipes ; Succinere and incinere ; The Pythian games ; Bagpipes ; Emperor Nero ; Cross flute ; Discovery in an Etruscan tomb ; Pan-pipes ; Virginity test ; The water organ ; Trumpets ; Roman military music ; The question of the Nordic lurer ; Drums ; Dionysian cults ; Clappers ; Mediterranean heritage -- India. The Indus civilization ; Drum and harp ; The hieroglyphic script ; The Vedas ; Rigveda and Atharvaveda ; The Dravida ; The double trumpet ; The double clarinet of snake charmers ; Bagpipes ; Drums ; Sacrifices to the drum ; Arched harps ; Temple reliefs ; Trumpets ; Drums ; The coiled drum stick ; Cross flutes ; The celestial music ; Lute ; The Gandhara style -- The Far East. Confucius and Plato ; Musical ethics ; State and music ; Cosmos and music ; Substances and music ; Importance of idiophones ; Universe and pitch ; Playing and singing -- The Shang dynasty (fourteenth-twelfth centuries B.C.). The Book of Poetry ; Globular flutes ; The European ocarina ; Stones and stone chimes ; Kawa pounding ; Bells and bell chimes ; Blood sacrifices ; Seasons and intervals ; Drums ; Rice stuffing ; Nails -- The Chou dynasty (1122-255 B.C.). Percussion-clapper ; A beaten book ; The trough ; Rice pounding ; The fish ; The eyelids and the carved fruit ; The tiger ; The path of life ; Pitch- and pan-pipes ; The male and the female scale ; Flutes ; Sacred measures ; The mouth organ ; Long zithers ; Music of the sages -- The Han dynasty (206 B.C.-220 A.D.). Short lutes ; The westeastern path -- America. Central America. The Mexican civilization ; Flutes and trumpets ; Idiophones ; Musica muy triste ; Drums ; Level of Mexican music -- South America. The Peruvian civilization ; Pan-pipes ; The question of an American origin ; Flutes ; The rocking whistle ; Idiophones ; Drums ; Inflation of human skins ; Trumpets ; The 'Pacific' culture area --;

505 0 a| Third part: The Middle Ages. The Far East. Western influences ; Idiophones ; Turkish metal workers ; Trumpets ; Gigantic lama trumpets ; Reed pipes ; A Tataric pibgorn ; Flutes ; Different blowing style ; Drums ; Japanese rhythm ; Bowed instruments ; Invention of the fiddle bow ; Flat lutes ; Long lute ; Dulcimer and harp ; Change of musical style -- India. Gamakas ; Rhythmic patterns -- Pre-Islamic times. Borobudur ; Idiophones ; Cymbals in mythology ; Acrobacy ; Drums and drum chimes ; Stick-zither ; Vina ; Fiddles ; Sympathetic strings ; Flutes and trumpets ; The question of the coil -- Islamic times. Drums ; Kettledrums ; Technique ; Oboe ; Broad-necked lutes ; The peacock -- Southeast Asia. Pre-Indian period. Malayan prehistory ; Drum-gongs ; Bronze -- Indian period. Indian colonies ; Borobudur -- Post-Indian periods. Dynamic style ; The orchestras ; Scales ; The xylophone ; Malayan civilization in Africa ; Metallophones ; Celesta ; Gongs ; Magic ; Gong chimes ; Islamic influence -- The Near East. The queen of Sheba ; The Arabian Nights ; Islamic cosmopolitanism ; Frame drums ; Flutes ; The oboe ; Procession music ; Cylindrical drums ; Kettledrums ; Clay and metal ; Short lutes ; The lute with a frontal stringholder ; The name 'ud ; Symbolism of the strings ; The spike-fiddle ; The long lute ; Mathematical basis ; The trapezoidal zither ; Combined instruments ; The dulcimer ; The angular harm -- Europe. Instruments introduced before the year 1000. A northern and a southern zone ; The harp ; Chrotta and harpa ; Medieval chord playing ; Lyres ; The monochord ; Boetius and the monks ; The hurdy-gurdy ; Lutes ; Fiddles ; Idiophones ; Horns and trumpets ; Bagpipes ; The organ ; Musica ficta -- Instruments introduced in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The portative organ ; Flutes ; Military music ; Reed pipes ; Drums ; The trumscheit ; Zithers ; The cimbalom --;

505 0 a| Fourth part: The modern occident. The Renaissance (1400-1600). Development of a self-sufficient instrumental music ; Increasing interest in color ; Popular treatises on instruments ; Virdung ; Luscinius ; Schlick ; Agricola ; Bermudo ; Praetorius ; Mersenne ; Beauty of shape ; Collections ; Inventories ; Chest and consort ; The organ ; Two keyboards ; Stops ; The plein jeu ; Regals ; Single and double ; The pair ; Recorders ; One-handed flute ; Tabor and pipe ; Flageolet ; Transverse flute ; Shawms ; Bassoon ; Rankets ; Cromorne ; Schryari ; Rauschpfeifen ; Cornet ; Trombone ; Trumpets ; The 'noble guild ; Kettledrums ; Clavichords ; Equal temperament ; Short octave ; The Empfindsame Zeitalter ; Spinets and harpsichords ; Virginals ; The chessboard ; The dulce melos ; The lute ; Modern lute playing ; The vihuela ; The cittern ; Viols ; Tuning ; The lira da gamba -- The Baroque (1600-1750). Musical revolution ; Emotional style ; Monody ; The first violin sonatas ; Dismissal of wind instruments ; Monochrome ; Rise of the violin ; The violin family ; The formant ; Good and poor violins ; Pizzicato and vibrato ; Brescia and Cremona ; German, English and French schools ; Concert halls ; Overspinning ; Viola d'amore ; Viola pomposa ; Baryton ; The bow ; Drone lutes ; Citterns ; Guitar ; Harpsichord ; Ruckers ; The second keyboard ; Ravalement ; The 16 foot ; The pedal ; Carillons ; Water chimes ; Glockenspiel ; Celesta ; English change-ringing ; The flute ; Readmission of wind instruments ; The oboe ; Slide trumpets ; Horns ; The organ ; The Praetorius organ ; The pitch -- Romanticism (1750-1900). Increasing number of instruments ; Blending of timbres ; Striving for power ; The pitch ; Expressiveness ; The piano ; The harp ; The Aeolian harp ; The supernatural ; Friction rods ; The glass harmonica ; The harmonium ; The Boehm flute ; Clarinets ; The saxophone ; Chromatic horns and trumpets ; Serpents and bass horns ; Key trumpets and key bugles ; Stopped French horns ; Valves ; The cornet family ; Trumpets and trombones ; Machine drums ; Drums ; The Turkish music ; Janissaries ; The triangle ; The crescent ; Cymbals ; The xylophone ; The organ -- The twentieth century. Gigantic orchestras ; Chamber orchestras ; Preference given to wind instruments ; The rise of percussion ; The banjo ; Jazz instruments ; Electric instruments ; Archaism ; The resurrection of ancient music ; Playing on ancient instruments ; Ancient forms ; The organ ; "The world's greatest organ" ; "Back to Silbermann" ; The Praetorius organ ; The new style -- Terminology.;

520 a| This first comprehensive history of musical instruments, this book ranges from prehistoric times to the 20th century. It traverses five continents and every stage of evolution, from primitive rattles and bull-roarers to the electric organ. Author Curt Sachs, one of the world's most distinguished musicologists, combines rich scholarship with personal insight in a remarkable fusion of music, anthropology, and the fine arts. Beginning with the earliest manifestations of rhythm, Sachs explores the association of sound with primitive rites of fertility, life, death, and rebirth. He traces the evolution of folk and ritual instruments to tools of entertainment and art, the rise of a professional class of singers and musicians, and the musical revolution that flowered during the Renaissance. Sachs chronicles the foundation of the modern orchestra during the baroque period and its subsequent development, concluding with the modern-day rise of electric and jazz instruments. This classic work is enhanced with 24 plates and 167 illustrations.;

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The history of musical instruments / Curt Sachs.

Author/creator	Sachs, Curt
Format	Book
Publication Info	New York : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., ©1940.
Description	505 pages, 24 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects	Musical instruments--History.

Contents	First part: The primitive and prehistoric epoch. Early instruments. Motor impulses. The "invention of instruments" ; Rhythm ; Slapping the body ; Rattles ; Sounding amulets ; Shamanic rites ; Stampers ; Rice ceremonials ; Slit-drums ; The teetering tree ; The sand drum ; Drums ; Wood-cutters' and clay modelers' forms -- Ritual functions. Drums (continued) ; Shaman's drumming ; Construction rites ; The sacred drum-yard ; Symbolism of the drum ; Symbolism of the drum stick ; Slit-drum (continued) ; Drum language ; The earliest wind instruments ; The ribbon reed ; Weather charm ; Friction instruments ; Girls' initiations ; The bull-roarer ; Woman's taboo ; The scraper ; Love charm ; Flutes ; Phallic rites ; Nose flutes ; Nostril and astrology ; Trumpets ; Solar rites ; Shell trumpets ; Sex connotations -- Melodic impulses. Reduplication in language and music ; 'Father and mother' ; Stamping tubes ; Xylophone ; Marimba music ; Ground harp ; Ground-zither ; Musical bow ; Intimacy and meditation ; The jaws' harp -- The chronology of early instruments. Simplicity and complication ; Cultural level and form of civilization ; Prehistory and anthropology ; Geographic method ; Relation or parallelism ; The three main strata --
Contents	Second part: Antiquity. Sumer and Babylonia. History ; Languages ; Script ; Idiophonic instruments ; Toys ; Pipes ; Horns and trumpets ; King Tushratta's gift ; Drums ; 'The great bull's hide' ; Sumer and Japan ; Divination ; Feeding the drum ; Moon rites ; Sacrifices ; Sumer and East Africa ; Lyres ; Lyre playing ; Harps ; Harp playing ; Orchestration ; Harmony ; Lutes ; King Nebuchadnezzar's orchestra -- Egypt. From prehistory to the end of the middle kingdom. Prehistoric contact with Sumer ; History ; Script ; Clappers and concussion-sticks ; Arbeit und Rhythmus ; Sistrum ; Hathor and Isis ; Flutes and clarinets ; Glass blowers' technique ; Harps ; Drawing and photography ; Drums ; Egypt and India -- From the new kingdom to the Greek epoch. The empire ; New style in music ; Oboes ; In search of the scale ; Trumpets, stringed instruments and idiophones ; Foreign instruments in high civilizations -- Israel. The nomadic epoch. Primitive character ; Ugab ; King David's kinnor ; The women's timbrel ; The high priest's bell ; The magic shofar ; The two silver trumpets -- The time of the kings. The academy of religious music ; Music in the temple ; Stringed and wind instruments ; Sistrum and cymbals ; The controversy of the organ ; The headings of the Psalms -- Greece, Rome and Etruria. Fine art and music ; Lyres and the musical system of antiquity ; The harp and anacreon ; Lutes and zithers ; Pipes ; Succinere and incinere ; The Pythian games ; Bagpipes ; Emperor Nero ; Cross flute ; Discovery in an Etruscan tomb ; Pan-pipes ; Virginity test ; The water organ ; Trumpets ; Roman military music ; The question of the Nordic lurer ; Drums ; Dionysian cults ; Clappers ; Mediterranean heritage -- India. The Indus civilization ; Drum and harp ; The hieroglyphic script ; The Vedas ; Rigveda and Atharvaveda ; The Dravida ; The double trumpet ; The double clarinet of snake charmers ; Bagpipes ; Drums ; Sacrifices to the drum ; Arched harps ; Temple reliefs ; Trumpets ; Drums ; The coiled drum stick ; Cross flutes ; The celestial music ; Lute ; The Gandhara style -- The Far East. Confucius and Plato ; Musical ethics ; State and music ; Cosmos and music ; Substances and music ; Importance of idiophones ; Universe and pitch ; Playing and singing -- The Shang dynasty (fourteenth-twelfth centuries B.C.). The Book of Poetry ; Globular flutes ; The European ocarina ; Stones and stone chimes ; Kawa pounding ; Bells and bell chimes ; Blood sacrifices ; Seasons and intervals ; Drums ; Rice stuffing ; Nails -- The Chou dynasty (1122-255 B.C.). Percussion-clapper ; A beaten book ; The trough ; Rice pounding ; The fish ; The eyelids and the carved fruit ; The tiger ; The path of life ; Pitch- and pan-pipes ; The male and the female scale ; Flutes ; Sacred measures ; The mouth organ ; Long zithers ; Music of the sages -- The Han dynasty (206 B.C.-220 A.D.). Short lutes ; The westeastern path -- America. Central America. The Mexican civilization ; Flutes and trumpets ; Idiophones ; Musica muy triste ; Drums ; Level of Mexican music -- South America. The Peruvian civilization ; Pan-pipes ; The question of an American origin ; Flutes ; The rocking whistle ; Idiophones ; Drums ; Inflation of human skins ; Trumpets ; The 'Pacific' culture area --
Contents	Third part: The Middle Ages. The Far East. Western influences ; Idiophones ; Turkish metal workers ; Trumpets ; Gigantic lama trumpets ; Reed pipes ; A Tataric pibgorn ; Flutes ; Different blowing style ; Drums ; Japanese rhythm ; Bowed instruments ; Invention of the fiddle bow ; Flat lutes ; Long lute ; Dulcimer and harp ; Change of musical style -- India. Gamakas ; Rhythmic patterns -- Pre-Islamic times. Borobudur ; Idiophones ; Cymbals in mythology ; Acrobacy ; Drums and drum chimes ; Stick-zither ; Vina ; Fiddles ; Sympathetic strings ; Flutes and trumpets ; The question of the coil -- Islamic times. Drums ; Kettledrums ; Technique ; Oboe ; Broad-necked lutes ; The peacock -- Southeast Asia. Pre-Indian period. Malayan prehistory ; Drum-gongs ; Bronze -- Indian period. Indian colonies ; Borobudur -- Post-Indian periods. Dynamic style ; The orchestras ; Scales ; The xylophone ; Malayan civilization in Africa ; Metallophones ; Celesta ; Gongs ; Magic ; Gong chimes ; Islamic influence -- The Near East. The queen of Sheba ; The Arabian Nights ; Islamic cosmopolitanism ; Frame drums ; Flutes ; The oboe ; Procession music ; Cylindrical drums ; Kettledrums ; Clay and metal ; Short lutes ; The lute with a frontal stringholder ; The name 'ud ; Symbolism of the strings ; The spike-fiddle ; The long lute ; Mathematical basis ; The trapezoidal zither ; Combined instruments ; The dulcimer ; The angular harm -- Europe. Instruments introduced before the year 1000. A northern and a southern zone ; The harp ; Chrotta and harpa ; Medieval chord playing ; Lyres ; The monochord ; Boetius and the monks ; The hurdy-gurdy ; Lutes ; Fiddles ; Idiophones ; Horns and trumpets ; Bagpipes ; The organ ; Musica ficta -- Instruments introduced in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The portative organ ; Flutes ; Military music ; Reed pipes ; Drums ; The trumscheit ; Zithers ; The cimbalom --
Contents	Fourth part: The modern occident. The Renaissance (1400-1600). Development of a self-sufficient instrumental music ; Increasing interest in color ; Popular treatises on instruments ; Virdung ; Luscinius ; Schlick ; Agricola ; Bermudo ; Praetorius ; Mersenne ; Beauty of shape ; Collections ; Inventories ; Chest and consort ; The organ ; Two keyboards ; Stops ; The plein jeu ; Regals ; Single and double ; The pair ; Recorders ; One-handed flute ; Tabor and pipe ; Flageolet ; Transverse flute ; Shawms ; Bassoon ; Rankets ; Cromorne ; Schryari ; Rauschpfeifen ; Cornet ; Trombone ; Trumpets ; The 'noble guild ; Kettledrums ; Clavichords ; Equal temperament ; Short octave ; The Empfindsame Zeitalter ; Spinets and harpsichords ; Virginals ; The chessboard ; The dulce melos ; The lute ; Modern lute playing ; The vihuela ; The cittern ; Viols ; Tuning ; The lira da gamba -- The Baroque (1600-1750). Musical revolution ; Emotional style ; Monody ; The first violin sonatas ; Dismissal of wind instruments ; Monochrome ; Rise of the violin ; The violin family ; The formant ; Good and poor violins ; Pizzicato and vibrato ; Brescia and Cremona ; German, English and French schools ; Concert halls ; Overspinning ; Viola d'amore ; Viola pomposa ; Baryton ; The bow ; Drone lutes ; Citterns ; Guitar ; Harpsichord ; Ruckers ; The second keyboard ; Ravalement ; The 16 foot ; The pedal ; Carillons ; Water chimes ; Glockenspiel ; Celesta ; English change-ringing ; The flute ; Readmission of wind instruments ; The oboe ; Slide trumpets ; Horns ; The organ ; The Praetorius organ ; The pitch -- Romanticism (1750-1900). Increasing number of instruments ; Blending of timbres ; Striving for power ; The pitch ; Expressiveness ; The piano ; The harp ; The Aeolian harp ; The supernatural ; Friction rods ; The glass harmonica ; The harmonium ; The Boehm flute ; Clarinets ; The saxophone ; Chromatic horns and trumpets ; Serpents and bass horns ; Key trumpets and key bugles ; Stopped French horns ; Valves ; The cornet family ; Trumpets and trombones ; Machine drums ; Drums ; The Turkish music ; Janissaries ; The triangle ; The crescent ; Cymbals ; The xylophone ; The organ -- The twentieth century. Gigantic orchestras ; Chamber orchestras ; Preference given to wind instruments ; The rise of percussion ; The banjo ; Jazz instruments ; Electric instruments ; Archaism ; The resurrection of ancient music ; Playing on ancient instruments ; Ancient forms ; The organ ; "The world's greatest organ" ; "Back to Silbermann" ; The Praetorius organ ; The new style -- Terminology.
Abstract	This first comprehensive history of musical instruments, this book ranges from prehistoric times to the 20th century. It traverses five continents and every stage of evolution, from primitive rattles and bull-roarers to the electric organ. Author Curt Sachs, one of the world's most distinguished musicologists, combines rich scholarship with personal insight in a remarkable fusion of music, anthropology, and the fine arts. Beginning with the earliest manifestations of rhythm, Sachs explores the association of sound with primitive rites of fertility, life, death, and rebirth. He traces the evolution of folk and ritual instruments to tools of entertainment and art, the rise of a professional class of singers and musicians, and the musical revolution that flowered during the Renaissance. Sachs chronicles the foundation of the modern orchestra during the baroque period and its subsequent development, concluding with the modern-day rise of electric and jazz instruments. This classic work is enhanced with 24 plates and 167 illustrations.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-487) and index.
LCCN	41000559

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