Kartomi, Margaret J. <br/><br/>
On concepts and classifications of musical instruments/ 
Margaret J. Kartomi. 
 - Chicago:  University of Chicago Press,  1990. 
 - xix, 329 p.:  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>I. On the Nature of Classifications of Musical Instruments <br/>1. Any Classification Is Superior to Chaos <br/>2. On the Methodology of Classification: Taxonomies, Keys, Paradigms and Typologies <br/>3. Cognitive Directions: Downward and Upward Grouping <br/><br/>II. Classification in Societies Oriented toward Literary Transmission <br/>4. Continuities and Change in Chinese Classifications <br/>5. Indian and Srilankan Classifications from Ancient to Modern Times <br/>6. The Priority of Musical over Religious Characters in Grouping Tibetan Monastic Instruments <br/>7. The Case of Java--Classifications in Oral Tradition and the Recent Development of Literary Schemes <br/>8. Greek Taxonomical Thought from Archaic to Hellenistic Times <br/>9. National Identity and Other Themes of Classification in the Arab World <br/>10. European Classifications from Medieval Times to the Eighteenth Century <br/>11. The Expanding Concept of Instruments in the West during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries <br/>12. Upward Classification of Instruments: The Method of the Future? <br/><br/>III. Classification in Societies Oriented toward Oral Transmission <br/>13. Parallels between Social Structure and Ensemble Classification in Mandailing <br/>14. Taxonomical Models of the Instrumentarium and Regional Ensembles in Minangkabau <br/>15. Groupings Governed by Key Cultural Concepts of the T'boli <br/>16. The Personification of Instruments in Some West African Classifications <br/>17. Cognitive Categories, Paradigms, and Taxonomies among the 'Are'are <br/>18. A Finnish-Karelian Taxonomy as a Historiographical Tool  
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780226425498 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Musical instruments--Classification.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>784.19012  / KAR/O