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Original scientific paper

ARCHEOLOGICAL FINDINGS OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN YUGOSLAVIA

Krešimir Galin ; Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb, Croatia


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Abstract

This survey of initial archeomusicological research on the territory of Yugoslavia is based on published and unpublished sources, that is on the archeological findings of musical instruments and objects that have not been identified as musical instruments but as "cult-magic tools". The article presents archeological findings of musical instruments according to the Hornbostel and Sachs classification system and defines them typologically. Musical instruments are presented from three basic groups: idiophones, aerophones and chordophones. The author reinterprets certain archeological findings, pointing to the plausible application in music of the "cult-magic tools", finding occasional parallels with contemporary traditional instruments and beliefs preserved with individual types of musical instrument, presenting the facts and assumptions on the specific functions of these instruments in the prehistoric and historic age, and registering certain phenomena of continuity in usage of certain types of musical instruments on the territory of Yugoslavia.

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Hrčak ID:

53672

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/53672

Publication date:

15.6.1988.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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