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Historic Bibliographies and Reference Aids
A Brief List of Material Relating to Ethnomusicology
Compiled by Archive of Folk Culture staff
Publication Date: November 17, 1967
Bose, Fritz.
Musikalische Völkerkunde. Freiberg: Atlantis Verlag
(Atlantis-Muzikbücherie),
1953.
Bowra, C.M.
Primitive Song. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1962.
Brands, Eugene, and Hans van Zutphen.
Die Muziek van de mens: Een Verkenningstocht door de wereld
van de ethnische musiek. Zaandijk, Netherlands: J. Heijnis
Tsz., 1959.
Collaer, Paul, and Albert van der Linden.
Atlas of historique de la musique. Paris: Elsevier, 1960.
Dahlback, Karl.
New Methods in Vocal Folk Music Research. Oslo: Oslo University
Press, 1958.
Ellis, Alexander J.
On the Musical Scales of Various Nations. Journal of the Society
of Arts, 1885.
[no author identified]
Ethnomusicology: Tenth Anniversary Issue. Bruno Nettl,
editor. Volume 7, number 3, September 1963.
Harrison, Frank Lloyd; Hood, Mantle; and Claude V. Palisca.
Musicology. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc.,
1963.
Haydon, Glen.
Introduction to Musicology. Reprint edition, Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, 1959.
Herzog, George.
Research in Primitive and Folk Music in the United States.
Washington D.C.: American Council of Learned Societies, Bulletin
Number
24, 1936.
"Song: Folk Song and the Music of Folk Song." In
Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Legend, edited
by Maria Leach, two volumes, New York: Funk & Wagnalls, volume
1, 1950, pp. 1032-1050.
Hood, Mantle.
"The Quest of Norms in Ethnomusicology." Inter-American
Music Bulletin, number 35, May 1963, pp. 1-5. Reprinted in Primera
Conferencia Interamericana de Ethnomusicologia: Trabajos Presentados,
Washington, D.C.: Pan American Union, 1965, pp. 67-71.
Hornbostel, Erich M. von.
"Melodie und Skala." Jahrbuch der Musikbibliothek Peters,
volume 20, 1912, pp. 11-23.
Hornbostel, Erich M. von. and Otto Abraham.
"
Uber die Bedeutung des Phonographen für die vergleichende
Musik-wissenschaft." Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, volume
36, 1904, pp. 222-233.
"Volkshläge zur Transkription exotischer Melodien."
Sammelbände
der Internationalen Muskgesellschaft, volume 11, 1909, pp. 1-25.
Hornbostel, Erich M. von, and Curt Sachs.
"Classification of Musical Instruments." Translated
by Anthony Baines and Klaus P. Wachsmann. The Galpin Society
Journal, volume
14, March 1961, pp. 3-29.
Jacobs, Melville.
Pattern in Cultural Anthropology. Homewood, Illinois:
The Dorsey Press, 1964. Pp. 305-318: "Ethnomusicology."
Karpeles, Maud.
The Collecting of Folk Music and Other Ethnomusicological
Material: A Manual for Field Workers. London: International
Folk Music Council and Royal Anthropological Institute, 1958.
Kolinski, Mieczyslaw.
"Ethnomusicology, its Problems and Methods." Ethnomusicology
Newsletter, number 10, 1957, pp. 1-7.
"The Evaluation of Tempo." Ethnomusicology, volume
3, number 2, May 1959, pp. 45-56.
"Classification of Tonal Structures." Studies
in Ethnomusicology, volume 1, 1961, pp. 38-76.
"The Structure of Melodic Movements: A New Method of Analysis."
Revised edition, Studies in Ethnomusicology, volume 2, 1965,
pp. 95-120.
"The General Direction of Melodic Movement." Ethnomusicology,
volume 9, number 3, September 1965, pp. 240-264.
Kunst, Jaap.
Ethnomusicology. Third edition, The Hague: Martinus
Nijhoff, 1959.
Supplement to the Third Edition of Ethnomusicology. The Hague:
Martinus Nijhoff, 1960.
Kurath, Gertrude P.
"Panorama of Dance Ethnology." Current Anthropology,
volume 1, 1960, pp. 233-254.
Lach, Robert.
Die vergleichende Musikwissenschaft, ihre Methoden und Probleme.
Wien: Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1924.
Leydi, Roberto.
La Musica die Primitivi. Milano: Il Saggiatore, 1961.
Lomax, Alan.
"Folk Song Style." American Anthropologist, volume
6, 1959, pp. 927-954.
"Song Structure and Social Structure." Ethnology,
volume 1, 1962, pp. 425-451.
"Phonotactique du Chant Populaire." L'Homme,
January-April 1964, pp. 5-55.
Merriam, Alan P.
"Ethnomusicology, Discussion and Definition of the Field." Ethnomusicology,
volume 4, number 3, September 1960, pp. 107-114.
The Anthropology of Music. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern
University Press, 1964. For a series of 14 reviews of this book,
with comments by the author, see Current Anthropology, volume
7, number 2, April 1966, pp. 217-230.
Nadel, Siegfried.
"The Origins of Music." Musical Quarterly, volume
16, 1930, pp. 531-546.
Nettl, Bruno.
Music in Primitive Culture. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
1956.
Reference Materials in Ethnomusicology. Detroit Studies in Music
Bibliography, number 1, 1961.
Theory and Method in Ethnomusicology. New York: The Free Press
of Glencoe, 1964.
Folk and traditional Music of the Western Continents.
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1965.
Rhodes, Willard.
"Toward a Definition of Ethnomusicology." American
Anthropologist, volume 58, 1956, pp. 457-463.
Sachs, Curt.
The Rise of Music in the Ancient World, East and West. New York:
Norton, 1934.
The History of Musical Instruments. New York: Norton, 1940.
Rhythm and Tempo. New York: Norton, 1953.
Vergleichende Musikwissenschaft, Musik der Fremdkulturen. Second
edition, Heidelberg: Quelle und Meyer, 1959.
The Wellsprings of Music. Edited by Jaap Knust, The Hague: Martinus
Nijhoff, 1962.
Real-Lexikon der Musikinstruments. Reprint edition, New York:
Dover Publications, 1963.
Seeger, Charles.
"Oral Traditions in Music." In Dictionary of Folklore,
Mythology and Legend, edited by Maria Leach, two volumes,
New York: Funk
& Wagnalls, 1950, volume 1, pp. 825-829.
"Systematic Musicology; Viewpoints, Orientations and Methods."
Journal of the American Musicological Society, volume 4, 1951,
pp. 240-248.
"Singing Style." Western Folklore, volume 17, number
1, January 1958, pp. 3-11.
"Music as a Tradition of Communication." Ethnomusicology,
volume 6, number 3, September 1962, pp. 156-163.
"Folk Music." In Collier's Encyclopedia,
New York: Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., 1964, volume 10, pp.
132-140.
Stumpf, Carl.
Die Anfänge der Musik. Leipzig: J. A. Barth, 1911.
Szabolcsi, Bence.
Bausteine zu einer Geschichte der Melodie. Budapest: Corvina,
1959.
"Folk Music – Art Music – History of Music."
Studia Musicologica, volume 7, numbers 1-4, 1965, pp.
171-179.
Vega, Carlos.
"Mesomusic: An Essay on the Music of the Masses." Ethnomusicology,
volume 10, number 1, January 1966, pp. 1-17.
Wallaschek, Richard.
Primitive Music. London: Longmans, 1893.
Wellesz, Egon, editor.
Ancient and Oriental Music. Volume 1 of The New
Oxford History of Music, London, 1957.
"Whither Ethnomusicology? (Panel Discussion)." Ethnomusicology,
volume 3, number 2, May 1959, pp. 99-105.
Wiora, Walter.
The Four Ages of Music. Translated by M. D. Herter Norton, New
York: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1965.
"Ethnomusicology and the History of Music." Studia
Musicologica, volume 7, numbers 1-4, 1965, pp. 187-193.
ADDENDA
Erdely, Stephen.
Methods and Principles of Hungarian Ethnomusicology. Bloomington,
Indiana: Indiana University Publications, Uralic and Altaic
Series, volume 52, 1965.
Gillis, Frank, and Alan P. Merriam.
Ethnomusicology and Folk Music: An International Bibliography
of Dissertations and Theses. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan
University Press, 1966.
Kaufmann, Walter.
Musical Notation of the Orient. Notational Systems of Continental
East, South, and Central Asia. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana
University Humanities Series, number 60, 1967.
Kolinski, Mieczyslaw.
"Recent Trends in Ethnomusicology." Ethnomusicology,
volume 11, number 1, January 1967, pp. 1-24.
Lomax, Alan.
"Special Features of the Sung Communication." In:
Essays on the Verbal and Visual Arts: Proceedings of the
1966 Annual
Spring Meeting of the American Ethnological Society, edited by
June Helm, Seattle and London: University of Washington Press
for the American Ethnological Society, 1967, pp. 109-127.
Malm, William P.
Music Cultures of the Pacific, the Near East, and Asia. Englewood
Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1967.
Seeger, Charles.
"The Music Process as a Function in a Context of Functions,"
Inter-American Institute for Musical Research Yearbook, volume
2, 1966, pp.
1-36.
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