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The Diffusion of Musical Instruments as an Interethnic Process of Communication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2019

Erich Stockmann
Erich Stockmann*
Affiliation:
Institut für Volkskunde, Berlin, German Democratic Republic
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The scientific exploration of musical instruments of non-European peoples and of European folk music instruments began in the second half of the nineteenth century and was intensified in this century. The purpose of its initial phase was to make some kind of inventory in order to have the necessary scientific sources at hand, which would serve as a basis for further investigations of musical instruments. Field research among the world's most varied peoples has yielded even more data concerning a substantial number of new instruments, which hitherto have remained unknown.

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Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council , Volume 3 , 1971 , pp. 128 - 137
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Copyright © 1972 By the International Folk Music Council 

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1. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, XLVI (Berlin, 1914), 553–90. English translation by Anthony Baines and Klaus P. Wachsmann in Galpin Society Journal, XIV (1961), 3–29.Google Scholar

2. Geist und Werden der Musikinstrumente (Berlin, 1929), p. 5.Google Scholar

3. Loc. cit. Google Scholar

4. Ibid., p. 6.Google Scholar

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6. Journal of the International Folk Music Council, XVI (London, 1964), 84–88.Google Scholar

7. See Doris Stockmann, “Musik als kommunikatives System. Informations-und zeichentheoretische Aspekte insbesondere bei der Erforschung mündlich tradierter Musik”, Deutsches Jahrbuch der Musikwissenschaft für 1969 (Leipzig, 1970), 76–95.Google Scholar

8. “Die Folklore als eine besondere Form des Schaffens”, Donum Natalicium Schrijnen (Nijmegen-Utrecht, 1929), p. 901.Google Scholar

9. See for example: Dell Hymes, ed., The Use of Computers in Anthropology (The Hague, 1965); Doris Stockmann, “Elektronische Datenverarbeitung in der Ethnologie und den ihr nahestehenden Wissenschaften”, Deutsches Jahrbuch für Volksunde, XV (Berlin, 1969), 134–58; Lawrence A. Brown, Diffusion Processes and Location: A Conceptual Framework and Bibliography. Regional Science Research Institute, Bibliography Series No. 4 (Philadelphia, 1968); Nils-Arvid Bringéus, “Das Studium von Innovationen”, Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, LXIV (Stuttgart, 1968), 161–85.Google Scholar