On Concepts and Classifications of Musical Instruments (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) - Softcover

Kartomi, Margaret J.

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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.

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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.

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ISBN 10:  0226425487 ISBN 13:  9780226425481
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1990
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