The Origins of Music 1st Edition by Carl Stumpf, David Trippett 0199695733 9780199695737

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ISBN 10: 0199695733 

ISBN 13: 9780199695737

Author: Carl Stumpf, David Trippett

The Origins of Music was first published in German in 1911. In this text Carl Stumpf set out a path-breaking hypothesis on the earliest musical sounds in human culture. Alongside his research in such diverse fields as classical philosophy, acoustics, and mathematics, Stumpf became one of the most influential psychologists of the late 19th century. He was the founding father of Gestalt psychology, and collaborated with William James, Edmund Husserl, and Wolfgang Köhler. This book was the culmination of more than 25 years of empirical and theoretical research in the field of music. In the first part, Stumpf discusses the origin and forms of musical activities as well as various existing theories on the origin of music, including those of Darwin, Rousseau, Herder, and Spencer. In the second part of the book, he summarizes his works on the historical development of instruments and music, and studies a putatively global range of music from non-European cultures to demonstrate the psychological principles of tonal organization, as well as providing a range of cross-cultural musical transcriptions and analyses. This became a foundation document for comparative musicology, the elder sibling to modern Ethnomusicology, and the book provides access to the original recordings Stumpf used in this process. The Origins of Music is available for the first time in the English language as a result of a collaboration between the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM) and Oxford University Press. It is a fascinating volume for all those with an interest in the history of psychology and music. It appears here in tandem with Self-Portrait,Stumpf’s autobiography of 1924, in which he outlines the rich life experiences behind his research career alongside his own explanation of his scientific and cultural legacy.

Table of contents:

Section I: Introductory Essays
1 Carl Stumpf: Impulses Towards a Cognitive theory of Musical Evolution
1.1. Self-Contradictory Concepts of the Evolution of Music
1.2. A Brief Summary of Significant Aspects of the 1911 text
1.3. Psychology of tone Instead of Psychophysics
2 Carl Stumpf: A Reluctant Revolutionary
2.1. Legacy
2.2. Contemporary Discourse
2.3. Fusion
2.4. The Phonograph

Section II: The Origins of Music (1911)
Preface
3 Part I: The Origin and Archetypes of Music Making
3.1. Recent Theories
3.2. The Origin and Archetypes of Singing
3.3. Primitive Instruments and Their Influence
3.4. Polyphony, Rhythm, and Intoned Speech
3.5. Paths of Development
Endnotes
4 Part II: Songs of Primitive Peoples
Appendix: Images of Primitive Instruments

Section III: Carl Stumpf: Life and work
5 Carl Stumpf: A Self-Portrait (1924)
5.1. Biography
5.2. Views and Research
Carl Stumpf’s Publications
Index
Footnotes

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