Carl Stumpf
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199695737
- eISBN:
- 9780191742286
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199695737.001.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Music Psychology, Developmental Psychology
This book was first published in German in 1911. The text sets out a path-breaking hypothesis on the earliest musical sounds in human culture. Alongside research in such diverse fields as classical ...
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This book was first published in German in 1911. The text sets out a path-breaking hypothesis on the earliest musical sounds in human culture. Alongside 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 twenty-five years of empirical and theoretical research in the field of music. The first part of the book 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. The second part 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. This book is available for the first time in the English language.Less
This book was first published in German in 1911. The text sets out a path-breaking hypothesis on the earliest musical sounds in human culture. Alongside 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 twenty-five years of empirical and theoretical research in the field of music. The first part of the book 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. The second part 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. This book is available for the first time in the English language.
David Trippett
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199695737
- eISBN:
- 9780191742286
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199695737.003.0002
- Subject:
- Psychology, Music Psychology, Developmental Psychology
If historical events are to mark the boundaries of a life lived, one could be forgiven for suspecting that Carl Stumpf (1848–1936) might have been a political revolutionary: born during the months of ...
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If historical events are to mark the boundaries of a life lived, one could be forgiven for suspecting that Carl Stumpf (1848–1936) might have been a political revolutionary: born during the months of revolutionary uprisings across Europe, he died a few months after Hitler's troops occupied the Rhineland in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Yet, as a scientist, his convictions carried no muscular force; still less any political conviction. His sphere was intellectual. Though, as this chapter shows, this would prove no less influential in charting the course of the disciplines of psychology and (ethno)musicology, than the events that framed his life would serve to alter the course of European history.Less
If historical events are to mark the boundaries of a life lived, one could be forgiven for suspecting that Carl Stumpf (1848–1936) might have been a political revolutionary: born during the months of revolutionary uprisings across Europe, he died a few months after Hitler's troops occupied the Rhineland in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Yet, as a scientist, his convictions carried no muscular force; still less any political conviction. His sphere was intellectual. Though, as this chapter shows, this would prove no less influential in charting the course of the disciplines of psychology and (ethno)musicology, than the events that framed his life would serve to alter the course of European history.
Patricia Shehan Campbell
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198744443
- eISBN:
- 9780191805776
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198744443.003.0030
- Subject:
- Psychology, Music Psychology, Developmental Psychology
This chapter embraces a wide spectrum of settings and circumstances in which children are engaged in the acquisition of musical repertoire, knowledge, and values. Within families and across ...
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This chapter embraces a wide spectrum of settings and circumstances in which children are engaged in the acquisition of musical repertoire, knowledge, and values. Within families and across communities, informal processes of enculturation and socialization are in operation in lieu of (or in tandem with) formal teaching and learning in schools, studios, and other institutional contexts. The growth of disciplinary attention to children’s learning and their perceived beliefs, interests, and needs is acknowledged, particularly with attention to the emergence of an “ethnomusicology of children” that considers children’s musical identities as the product of family, peer, and mediated forces. In brief excursions to a variety of geo-cultural contexts, music transmission and learning are described for the rich set of global practices that they are, with attention to their cross-cultural and culture-specific features.Less
This chapter embraces a wide spectrum of settings and circumstances in which children are engaged in the acquisition of musical repertoire, knowledge, and values. Within families and across communities, informal processes of enculturation and socialization are in operation in lieu of (or in tandem with) formal teaching and learning in schools, studios, and other institutional contexts. The growth of disciplinary attention to children’s learning and their perceived beliefs, interests, and needs is acknowledged, particularly with attention to the emergence of an “ethnomusicology of children” that considers children’s musical identities as the product of family, peer, and mediated forces. In brief excursions to a variety of geo-cultural contexts, music transmission and learning are described for the rich set of global practices that they are, with attention to their cross-cultural and culture-specific features.
