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  Curt Sachs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Curt Sachs (June 29, 1881 - February 5, 1959) was a German musicologist.
In 1933, Sachs was dismissed from his posts in Germany by the Nazi Party because he was a Jew.
Sachs consequently moved to Paris, and later to the United States, where he settled in New York City.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Curt_Sachs   (399 words)

  
 1962.sachs.mercado
Sachs feels that nothing justifies the ethnomusicologist’s study of this "artificial exoticism and pseudo-archaism." Rather, that primitive and oriental music is due our utmost respect, "And respect implies the duty to help in preserving it," (Sachs 3).
Sachs simply describes melody as, "the audible movement of a singing voice from the beginning of a piece through all successive steps to its end," (51).
Sachs’ research is extensive, looking at primitive music from many different cultures, and referring to the works of his peers.
cfaonline.asu.edu /haefer/classes/568/568.papers/1962.sachs.mercado.html   (1472 words)

  
 Kishibe's diffusionism theory on the Iranian Barbat and Chino-Japanese Pi' Pa'
Before Kishibe, musicologists such as Carl Engel, Katheleen Schlesinger, Henry Farmer, Curt Sachs, Karl Geiringer, Friedreich Behn and a few others realized that the Chinese pipa was a development of the lute in Western Asia, and that the lute of Central Asia was the transitional type in the development of pipa (ibid: 262).
Schlesinger and Farmer, on the basis of their study of Arabic literature, concluded that the Arabian lut, el'oud, was influenced by the Sassanian lute, and that the Sassanian lute of the sixth and seventh centuries was called barbud or barbad.
Curt Sachs, on the other hand, maintained that the origin of the word barbat was in the Sanskrit bharbhu (strongly plucked).
www.shayda.net /Barbad.html   (2581 words)

  
 Goldman Sachs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Goldman Sachs is one of the leading investment banks, topping the league tables many times, especially in equity operations.
Goldman Sachs, for a long time during the 1980s, was the only major investment bank with a strict policy against helping to initiate a hostile takeover, which increased the firm's reputation immensly.
The Goldman Sachs Tower is in Jersey City's Exchange Place area, and sits immediately on the waterfront overlooking the Hudson River and Manhattan.
www.wwwtln.com /finance/89/goldman-sachs.html   (863 words)

  
 Curt Sachs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It is the interest in nature which has been passed on to the grandson: "Nature is a construction, like culture; it is impossible to draw a line where one ends and the other begins.
Curt Sachs has a consuming interest in Wagner which has increasingly been transferred to the great composer´s patron and protector, King Ludwig II of Bavaria, and to his singular way of life in the shadowy places between day and night.
Kitsch is no turn-off for Curt Sachs either; on the contrary, he sees at is the only tenable attitude in a world nearly spent.
home.swipnet.se /fer/ae_sachs.html   (146 words)

  
 Tay Sachs Disease -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Tay-Sachs disease (abbreviated TSD) is a fatal genetic disorder, inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern, in which harmful quantities of a fatty substance called ganglioside GM2 accumulate in the nerve cells in the brain.
The disease is named after the British ophthalmologist Warren Tay who first described the red spot on the retina of the eye in 1881, and the American neurologist Bernard Sachs who described the cellular changes of Tay-Sachs and noted an increased prevalence in the Eastern European Jewish population of 1887.
Hornbostel-Sachs (or Sachs-Hornbostel) is a system of musical instrument classification devised by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs, and first published in the ''Zeitschrift für Musik'' in 1914.
www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/145/tay-sachs-disease.html   (989 words)

  
 Sachs Disease -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The American conductor and writer Harvey Sachs (born 1946) has written a number of books on musical subjects, most notably the standard biography of and a book of essays on the Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini.
Nelly Sachs, (10 December 1891, Berlin - 12 May 1970, Stockholm) was a German poet and dramatist who was transformed by the Nazi experience from a dilettante into a poignant spokesperson for the grief and yearnings of her fellow Jews.
When, with Shmuel Yosef Agnon, she was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature, she observed that Agnon represented Israel whereas "I represent the tragedy of the Jewish people." On her passing in 1970, Nelly Sachs was interred in the Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm.
www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/128/sachs-disease.html   (1456 words)

  
 AMIS Newsletter: Curt Sachs Award for 2002 Presented   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Curt Sachs Award for 2002 Presented to Florence Gétreau
It is clear that Sachs greatly influenced Claudie, who focused definitively on instrumental popular music and organology, and not only on popular songs.
Personally I appreciate this heritage: Curt Sachs was not only a musicologist, but also an art historian; he influenced museum deontology and remains an exemplary model for methodology in many fields.
www.amis.org /pubs/newsletter/2002/v31no3/sachs_getreau_speach.htm   (493 words)

  
 AMIS: The Curt Sachs Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Curt Sachs Award, named for one of the founders of the modern systematic study of musical instruments, was established by the American Musical Instrument Society to honor those who have made important contributions toward the goals of the Society.
As the presentation of the Award is an integral part of the annual spring meeting of the Society, all nominations for consideration for each meeting must be submitted by the preceding October 1st.
The Curt Sachs Award consists of a certificate duly signed on behalf of the Society which recites the recipient's contributions to the study of musical instruments.
amis.org /awards/sachs.htm   (176 words)

  
 Classifying Musical Instruments   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The other way, first published in 1914 by Erich von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs, is to group instruments according to how their sounds are produced.
The orchestral classification of instruments is useful in the setting of traditional Western classical and art music, but it is a very general classification that doesn't cover many of the world's instruments.
All the strings are bowed lutes (except for the harp - a harp - and the piano - a struck zither).
cnx.org /content/m11896/1.5   (1500 words)

  
 What is a Harp Guitar
Thus, with Sachs providing separate entries and names for several historical variations on what I now class as "true" harp guitars, he establishes the segregation, misleading names and confusion that are unresolved to this day (leading to the present dissertation).
Sachs states that this "instrument type has the best claim to the name," and I would agree.
Both Curt Sachs (in his 1913 book) and Baines (in European and American Musical Instruments, 1966) mention this instrument, but describe it differently - and both are inaccurate.
www.harpguitars.net /history/org/hgorg.htm   (7581 words)

  
 Medieval Musical Performance by Barry E.
Give them the many unwritable shades of Arabian intervals from note to note, now a little wider, now narrower than ours, try to give them the color, the intonation, the strange mannerisms of Oriental singing, and the whole illusion of Western style is gone.
If we truly understand the nature of ornamentation, we shall realize it was not something which was "tacked on" to the "tune," but an intrinsic part of the melody which, when performed by a traditional musician, was always ornamented, and was never heard otherwise.
Curt Sachs, "The Lore of Non-Western Music," in Three Aspects of Musicology: Three Essays by Arthur Mendel, Curt Sachs, Carroll C. Pratt (New Your: Liberal Arts Press, 1957), p.26.
www.jubilatores.com /music.html   (6175 words)

  
 Sama as Persian Dance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In his "World History of the Dance" Curt Sachs mentions few notes on the features of Sama as a form of Persian dance.
His book contains a discussion of the general types and characteristics of the dance, and deals specifically with its forms and symbols from the Stone age, through classical antiquity, and middle ages, the 18th century, and the waltz and polka, to the 20th century.
In relation to their historical setting Sachs deals with the magic powers attributed to the dance, and such motives as fertility, war, marriage and health.
www.shayda.net /Persiandance.html   (287 words)

  
 ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
Von Hornbostel, and Curt Sachs, were two of the scholars working within the discipline
Curt Sachs theories on the origins of musical instruments, include the theory that music produced by the body (clapping hands, stamping feet, etc.) generated other mediums (musical instruments).
Sachs classifies, also, according from a cultural-historical perspective.
cfaonline.asu.edu /haefer/classes/568/568.papers/1960.kunst.barrionuevo.html   (1333 words)

  
 James Jones Instruments   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
"Iconographical and textual evidence contradict the widely influential writings of Curt Sachs, which claim that the dulcimer's origin was in the Middle East.
However, Sachs confuses the psaltery with the dulcimer in using the relief sculpture at the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela as evidence and provides no further source for his claim.
Chapter 4 demonstrates that in Iran the santur first appears in its modern form as a dulcimer only at the end of the fifteenth century and that in an earlier, Egyptian form it was a vertically held box-zither identical to the early qanun.
www.jamesjonesinstruments.com /hammereddulcimer/hdhistory.html   (236 words)

  
 The Song of Songs Revealed -- Chapter 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Modern "folk" harp players (when they tune their instruments diatonically "by ear") use the same method in principle that the musicians of Babylonia and Ugarit used to tune their lyres: the "cyclical" tuning which Pythagorus must have encountered in Egypt and Syria (before claiming it as his own discovery!).
Singing in the ancient Middle East (so musicologist Curt Sachs tells us) was "basically syllabic, and only moderately spiced with ligatures [musical slurs] and melismas [ornaments on a syllable]." Melody "followed ready-made patterns or was composed of carefully classified motives...", which affected the development of notation.
Sachs believed (ibid.) that ancient melody "was composed of carefully classified motifs, not of single notes" -- which is true only of certain ancient oral folk traditions (including some synagogue chant), not necessarily of ancient art music.
www.rakkav.com /song/pages/song03.htm   (3147 words)

  
 The Infography about the Ancient Origins of Music
Sachs, Curt, The Wellsprings of Music, McGraw-Hill, 1965.
Sachs, Curt, The Rise of Music in the Ancient World, East and West, W.W. Norton, 1943.
Sachs, Curt, History of Musical Instruments, W.W. Norton, 1940.
www.infography.com /content/994754231066.html   (656 words)

  
 L'Anthologie sonore
In the spring of 1934, the German musicologist Curt Sachs left his homeland, Germany, which was brutally under the control of Hitler; soon he met, in Paris, Mr Bernard Steele (from the publishing House "Denoël et Steele").
Curt Sachs was first and foremost a musicologist.
Although he initially had the last say on the initial composition of the catalogue, and so determined its limits by heading in many directions, it is noteworthy to find that his effort focused on lesser known works and styles of early masters.
www.medieval.org /emfaq/cds/ans99999.htm   (3709 words)

  
 The Classical Free-Reed, Inc. Taxonomy of Musical Instruments   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Austrian musicologist, Erich Moritz von Hornbostel (1877-1935), and his German colleague, Curt Sachs (1881-1959), proposed in 1914 a system of classification for musical instruments which has been criticized and changed in details through the years, but never supplanted.
The following chart -- of my own design -- (which depicts the position of the free-reed instruments in relation to the entire body of musical instruments) is based upon their work.
Curt Sachs invented the term "plucked idiophone" for the instrument, which produces sounds due to the rigidity and elasticity of the material from which it is made.
www.ksanti.net /free-reed/description/taxonomy.html   (1825 words)

  
 Dance Quotations
Dance is, in fact, the most serious intellectual business of savage life: it is the envisagement of a world beyond the spot and the moment of one's animal existence, the first conception of life as a whole.
Sachs observes that the oldest dance form seems to be the Reign, or cirde dance, which he takes to be a heritage from animal ancestors.
The number of possible permutations of these twenty figures into dances of seven figures each would then be...390,700,800 (Gene Hubert pointed out that some figures can only be danced from selected positions: revised calculation: 3,538,944 possible contras).
www.henryandjacqui.com /Others/Quotes.htm   (4402 words)

  
 Sacred Music in Antiquity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Such difference must not be considered accidental in an art work of realistic, indeed almost photographic, accuracy; nor can that single variation among otherwise uniform players be explained by an artist's formal consideration.
Curt Sachs, Hans Hickmann of the Museum of Cairo, Haïk-Vantoura and others all have pointed out that the tonic (1st), 4th and 5th degrees of the scale were always considered the
Sachs, for his part, pointed out that these degrees of the diatonic scale are the degrees most naturally produced by the human voice.
www.rakkav.com /kdhinc/pages/sacred.htm   (5161 words)

  
 Hans-Heinz Draeger
From 1931 to 1937 he was a student of musicology at the University of Berlin under the tutelage of F. Blume, Curt Sachs, A. Schering, G. Schuenemann and E. Schumann.
Other subjects studied included the history of art with Brinckmann and Pinder, philosophy with M. Dessoir and Nicolai Hartmann, and German literature with Herrmann.
Irene Sachs (widow of Curt Sachs), learning of Dr. Draeger's death, wrote, "Dr. Draeger was a man whom I respected deeply, a man of courage, when others failed, and a scholar to whom -- more than to any colleague of my husband -- I wished to confide the editorship of my husband's Gesammelte Aufsaetze.
musethno.music.utexas.edu /divhistory/draeger.html   (679 words)

  
 On the Origin of Music -- Essays and Readings
Sachs, Curt, History of Musical Instruments, N.Y.: W.W. Norton, 1940.
Sachs, Curt, The Rise of Music in the Ancient World, East and West, N.Y.: W.W. Norton and Co., 1943.
Sachs, Curt, The Wellsprings of Music, N.Y.: McGraw Hill, 1965.
www.webster.sk.ca /greenwich/biblio.htm   (529 words)

  
 Hornbostel-Sachs
Such instruments may have particularly long classification numbers with colons and hyphens used as well as numbers.
Hornbostel and Sachs themselves cite the case of a set of bagpipes where some of the pipes are single reed (like a clarinet) and others are double reed (like the oboe).
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www.mp3.fm /Hornbostel-Sachs.htm   (1173 words)

  
 MHN Instrument Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
There are two basic "categories" of lyres which are classified according to performance practice: a)instruments which are "plucked" or played by hand, and b)those which are bowed.
Ethnomusicologist Curt Sachs described two bowed lyres which have existed since the middle ages - the Welsh "crwth", which has a nearly rectangular shape, and a Scandinavian variant which features strings made from horsehair.
The bägänna, a large eight or ten-string lyre, made of a trapezoidal wooden frame fitted with a skin-covered sound box, is a rare instrument whose origins are believed to go back to Antiquity.
www.si.umich.edu /chico/instrument/pages/lyre_gnrl.html   (373 words)

  
 LAMC: LAMúsiCa Vol.2 No. 3: From the LAMC Desk
Of German birth, Francisco Curt Lange became by inspiration and choice a Latin American citizen.
During his life he traveled extensively through the continent coming to know its people, and its landscapes, learning about its musical life, and contributing to the development of Latin American music on a scale that has now become legendary.
In 1930, while visiting Latin America, he was invited by the goverment of Uruguay to organize several of the musical activities in the country.
www.music.indiana.edu /som/lamc/publications/lamusica/vol2.3/lamcdesk.html   (437 words)

  
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