On concepts and classifications of musical instruments/ Margaret J. Kartomi.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990Description: xix, 329 p.: ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780226425498Subject(s): Musical instruments -- ClassificationDDC classification: 784.19012Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 784.19012 KAR/O (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P19399 |
I. On the Nature of Classifications of Musical Instruments
1. Any Classification Is Superior to Chaos
2. On the Methodology of Classification: Taxonomies, Keys, Paradigms and Typologies
3. Cognitive Directions: Downward and Upward Grouping
II. Classification in Societies Oriented toward Literary Transmission
4. Continuities and Change in Chinese Classifications
5. Indian and Srilankan Classifications from Ancient to Modern Times
6. The Priority of Musical over Religious Characters in Grouping Tibetan Monastic Instruments
7. The Case of Java--Classifications in Oral Tradition and the Recent Development of Literary Schemes
8. Greek Taxonomical Thought from Archaic to Hellenistic Times
9. National Identity and Other Themes of Classification in the Arab World
10. European Classifications from Medieval Times to the Eighteenth Century
11. The Expanding Concept of Instruments in the West during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
12. Upward Classification of Instruments: The Method of the Future?
III. Classification in Societies Oriented toward Oral Transmission
13. Parallels between Social Structure and Ensemble Classification in Mandailing
14. Taxonomical Models of the Instrumentarium and Regional Ensembles in Minangkabau
15. Groupings Governed by Key Cultural Concepts of the T'boli
16. The Personification of Instruments in Some West African Classifications
17. Cognitive Categories, Paradigms, and Taxonomies among the 'Are'are
18. A Finnish-Karelian Taxonomy as a Historiographical Tool
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