Erich Moritz von Hornbostel (February 25, 1877 - November 28, 1935) was an Austrian ethnomusicologist and scholar of music. He is remembered for his pioneering work in the field of ethnomusicology, and for the Sachs-Hornbostel system of musical instrument classification which he co-authored with Curt Sachs. February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1877 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... November 28 is the 332nd day (333rd on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1935 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... A musicologist is someone who studies musicology. ... Hornbostel-Sachs (or Sachs-Hornbostel) is a system of musical instrument classification divised by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs, and first published in the Zeitschrift für Musik in 1914. ... At various times, and in various different cultures, various schemes of musical instrument classification have been used. ... Jump to: navigation, search Curt Sachs (June 29, 1881 - February 5, 1959) was a German musicologist. ...

Hornbostel was born in Vienna into a musical family. He studied the piano, harmony and counterpoint as a child, but his PhD at the University of Vienna was in chemistry. He moved to Berlin, where he fell under the influence of Carl Stumpf and worked with him on musical psychology and psychoacoustics. He was Stumpf's assistant at the Berlin Psychological Institute, and when the archives of the Institute were used as the basis for the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv, he became its first director. It was during his time there that he worked with Curt Sachs to produce the Sachs-Hornbostel system of musical instrument classification. Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]; Hungarian: Bécs) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austrias nine federal states (Bundesland Wien). ... Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the modern musical instrument. ... Harmony is the use and study of pitch simultaneity and chords, actual or implied, in music. ... Counterpoint is a musical technique involving the simultaneous sounding of separate musical lines. ... Chemistry (in Greek: χημεία) is the science of matter that deals with the composition, structure, and properties of substances and with the transformations that they undergo. ... Berlin ( ♫), IPA: , is the capital of Germany and its largest city; down from 4. ... Carl Stumpf (21 April 1848 - 25 December 1936) was a philosopher and psychologist. ... Jump to: navigation, search Psychoacoustics is the study of subjective human perception of sounds. ... Hornbostel-Sachs (or Sachs-Hornbostel) is a system of musical instrument classification divised by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs, and first published in the Zeitschrift für Musik in 1914. ...

In 1933, he was sacked from all his posts by the Nazi Party because his mother was a Jew. He moved first to Switzerland, then the United States, and finally to Cambridge in England, where he worked on an archive of non-European folk music recordings. He died there in 1935. The Nazi swastika symbol The National Socialist German Workers Party ( German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), better known as the NSDAP or the Nazi Party was a political party that was led to power in Germany by Adolf Hitler in 1933. ... The city of Cambridge is an old English university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire. ... Jump to: navigation, search Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK... Jump to: navigation, search Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. ...

Hornbostel did much work in the field of ethnomusicology. He specialised particularly in African and Asian music, making many recordings of it, and developing a system which allowed one to transcribe non-Western music from recordings to paper. He saw the musical tunings used by various cultural groups as an essential element in determining their music's character, and did much work in comparing different tunings. A lot of this work has been critized since, but in its time, this was a very rarely explored area. Hornbostel also argued that music should be a part of more general anthropological research. This page is about musical systems of tuning, for the musical process of tuning see tuning. ... Anthropology (from the Greek word άνθρωπος, human) consists of the study of humankind (see genus Homo). ...