"The Spirit and Creation of Musical Instruments" - The Spirit and Creation of Musical Instruments

...He and Hornbostel were successful in this regard when they developed the classification of musical instruments by Victor-Charles Mahillon (1841-1924), and their method is still widely used today, named the MHS method, which is an acronym of the three men's names. On the other hand, "The Spirit and Development of Musical Instruments" (1929) tried to rank musical instruments by age based on their morphological characteristics and explain the relationships in terms of regional spread. It is an interesting attempt to apply the cultural sphere theory in anthropology and to develop a unified theory, but it cannot be said to have been a success. ...

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…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。人類学における文化圏説の適用と統一的理論の試みとしては興味深いが，成功とはいいがたい。…

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