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Methods of Classification of Folk-Tunes*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2019
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To the constituent elements of every scientific discipline belongs the elaboration of a system of documentation (as a method of gathering data) and of sorting and classifying these data so as to elaborate the essential methodical and theoretical postulates for marking the history, genesis and evolution of specific phenomena on which research is undertaken. The problem of documentation (recording, collecting, transcribing, measuring) has since the beginning of this century become for ethnomusicology a constant methodological question. Parallel with this emerge the first attempts to elaborate systems of the musical classification of melodies, the problem initiated by the editors of Sammelbände der internationalen Musikgesellschaft in 1902, which was directed not only to the classification of folk music material. The problem of classification was partly connected with the documentary work of cataloguing, and partly with the theoretical scientific area, coming before the need to penetrate into the inner organism of the melodies to be classified.
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- Copyright © International Council for Traditional Music 1966
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This paper was submitted to the 17th Annual Conference of the I.F.M.C. at Budapest in August, 1964, but was neither read nor published in the proceedings of the Conference.
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