Organology (from Greek: ὄργανον - organon, "instrument" and λόγος - logos, "study") is the science of musical instruments and their classification [1]. Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified for the purpose of making Music. It embraces study of instruments' history, instruments used in different cultures, technical aspects of how instruments produce sound, and musical instrument classification. At various times and in various different cultures various schemes of Musical instrument classification have been used There is a degree of overlap between organology, acoustics, ethnomusicology, and musicology. Acoustics is the interdisciplinary science that deals with the study of Sound, Ultrasound and Infrasound (all mechanical waves in gases liquids and solids This article is about the concept For the society and academic journal see Society for Ethnomusicology. Musicology ( Greek: μουσική = "music" and λόγος = "word" or "reason" is the scholarly study of Music
A number of ancient cultures left documents detailing the musical instruments used and their role in society; these documents sometimes included a classification system. The first major documents on the subjects from the west, however, date from the 16th century, with works such as Sebastian Virdung's Musica getuscht und ausgezogen (1511), and Martin Agricola's Musica instrumentalis deudsch (1529). Sebastian Virdung (born c 1465 was a German composer and theorist on Musical instruments He studied in Heidelberg as a scholar of Johannes von Soest See Agricola for several other people of the same name Martin Agricola ( January 6, 1486 &ndash June 10,
One of the most important organologists of the 17th century is Michael Praetorius. As a means of recording the passage of Time, the 17th Century was that Century which lasted from 1601 - 1700 in the Gregorian calendar Michael Praetorius (probably February 15 1571 &ndash February 15 1621 was a German Composer, organist, and writer about Music. His Syntagma musicum (1618) is one of the most quoted works from that time on the subject, and is the source of much of what we know about renaissance musical instruments. Renaissance music is European music written during the Renaissance, approximately 1400 - 1600 Praetorius's Theatrum instrumentorium (1620) contains possibly the first pictures of African instruments in a European publication.
For much of the 18th and 19th centuries, little work was done on organology. The 18th century lasted from 1701 to 1800 in the Gregorian calendar, in accordance with the Anno Domini / Common Era numbering system The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar Explorers returned to Europe with instruments from different cultures, however, so that by the end of the 19th century, some musical instrument collections were quite large. This led to a renewed interest in the subject.
One of the most important organologists of the 20th century was Curt Sachs, who, as well as writing Real-Lexicon der Musikinstrumente (1913) and The History of Musical Instruments (1942), devised with Erich von Hornbostel the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of instrument classification, published in 1914. The twentieth century of the Common Era began on Curt Sachs ( June 29, 1881 - February 5, 1959) was a German musicologist. Erich Moritz von Hornbostel ( February 25, 1877 - November 28, 1935) was an Austrian Ethnomusicologist and scholar of Hornbostel-Sachs (or Sachs-Hornbostel) is a system of Musical instrument classification devised by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs This remains the most common classification scheme used by organologists today, despite some criticism.
A number of societies exist dedicated to the study of musical instruments. Among the more prominent are the Galpin Society, based in the United Kingdom; and the American Musical Instrument Society, based in the United States. The Galpin Society was formed in October 1946 to further research into the history construction development and use of musical instruments (the branch of Musicology known as The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The American Musical Instrument Society (AMIS was formed in 1971 "to promote better understanding of all aspects of the history design construction restoration and usage of musical The United States of America —commonly referred to as the
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Less commonly, organology can refer to the study of anatomical organs. Anatomy (from the Greek anatomia, from ana separate apart from and temnein, to cut up cut open is a branch of Biology that is the consideration In Biology, an organ ( Latin: organum, "instrument tool" from Greek όργανον - organon "organ instrument
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- the study of musical instruments in relation to history, culture, and construction.
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