Mahillon, VC (English spelling)

Japanese: Mahillon,V.C.(英語表記)MahillonVC
Mahillon, VC (English spelling)

…While he had detailed data on individual instruments and phenomena, he had a strong tendency to try to classify them in a unified way. He was successful in this respect when, together with Hornbostel, he developed the classification of musical instruments by Victor-Charles Mahillon (1841-1924), and their method is still widely used today under the name MHS, which is an acronym of the three men. On the other hand, “The Spirit and Development of Musical Instruments” (1929) attempted to rank musical instruments by era based on their morphological characteristics and explain the relationships in terms of regional spread. …

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Japanese:

…彼は個々の楽器や事象については詳細なデータをもちながら,統一的な方法によって分類しようとする傾向が強かった。この点で成功したのは,ホルンボステルとともにマイヨンVictor‐Charles Mahillon(1841‐1924)の楽器分類を発展させたことであり,彼らの方法は3人の頭文字をとりMHS法の名で現在も広く用いられている。他方,《楽器の精神と生成》(1929)は,楽器を形態的特徴に基づいて年代によって序列化し,地域的な伝播で関係を説明しようとしたものである。…

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