But people still clamor to know which instruments were invented first, and they hope for the neat answers with which amateur writers so readily supply them-a drum was the earliest instrument, or a flute, or the plucked string of a hunter’s bow. Myth has since been replaced by history, and the invention of musical instruments is no longer attributed to gods and heroes. Cain’s descendant, Jubal, is said to be the father of all such as handle the harp and the organ, Pan is credited with the invention of the pan-pipes, and Mercury is supposed to have devised the lyre when one day he found a dried-out tortoise on the banks of the Nile. MUSIC histories written before the nineteenth century usually start with an account of the mythological invention of the earliest instruments. Sachs chronicles the foundation of the modern orchestra during the baroque period and its subsequent development, concluding with the modern-day rise of electric and jazz instruments.Ī pleasure to read as well as a valuable resource, this classic work is enhanced with 24 plates and 167 illustrations.
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He traces the evolution of folk and ritual instruments to tools of entertainment and art, the rise of a professional class of singers and musicians, and the musical revolution that flowered during the Renaissance. Author Curt Sachs, one of the world's most distinguished musicologists, combines rich scholarship with personal insight in a remarkable fusion of music, anthropology, and the fine arts.īeginning with the earliest manifestations of rhythm, Sachs explores the association of sound with primitive rites of fertility, life, death, and rebirth. It traverses five continents and every stage of evolution, from primitive rattles and bull-roarers to the electric organ.
This first comprehensive history of musical instruments, this book ranges from prehistoric times to the 20th century.
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