Primitive Music: An Inquiry Into the Origin and Development of Music, Songs, Instruments, Dances, and Pantomimes of Savage Races (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Richard Wallaschek

9780265413746: Primitive Music: An Inquiry Into the Origin and Development of Music, Songs, Instruments, Dances, and Pantomimes of Savage Races (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0265413745 ISBN 13: 9780265413746

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Exploring the origins of rhythm, song, and dance across the world

Discover a landmark study that traces the origin and development of music, songs, instruments, dances, and pantomimes among savage races. Rich with ethnological insight, it pairs observation with musical examples to illuminate how early cultures shaped sound, motion, and performance.

This volume surveys music from Africa, Asia, the Indian Ocean islands, Australia, the Americas, and Europe. It moves from general character and techniques of primitive music to the roles of singers, composers, and instruments. It examines harmony, scales, rhythm, and melody, and it links music to dance, drama, and pantomime. Throughout, the author compares voices, instruments, and performance styles, offering a broad view of early musical life and its evolution.

Learn how primitive peoples used rhythm and melody to organize daily life, ritual, and entertainment.
Compare different families of instruments, vocal styles, and the relationships between speech and song.
Understand how dances, pantomimes, and dramatic forms relate to musical expression across cultures.

Ideal for readers of ethnology, anthropology, and the history of music, this edition provides a comprehensive, historically grounded look at the roots of music and its earliest forms.

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A Victorian study of the music, instruments and dance of the world's indigenous peoples from which the author, a pioneer in comparative musicology, develops his theory of the origin of music based on rhythm and an innate sense of time, rather than the melody of speech.

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