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From its very beginnings, comparative musicology (and then ethnomusicology) made use of sound recordings as the basic instrument of its research methodology, and regarded the phonographic archive as an institution essential to the very functioning of the discipline. The creation of the first European phonographic archives in Vienna (1899) and Berlin (1900) was followed by the establishment of numerous...
Vienna is said to be one of the birthplaces of ethnomusicology, the other being Berlin. 1885 is the date when Guido Adler, the musicologist, for the first time used the term 'comparative musicology', at least in the German speaking area in an article called 'Umfang, Methode und Ziel der Musikwissenschaft'. The paragraph on comparative musicology is actually a very short one, but the whole article...
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