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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Bruno Nettl was an ethnomusicologist who was central in defining ethnomusicology as a discipline. His research focused on folk and traditional music, specifically Native American music, the music of Iran and numerous topics surrounding ethnomusicology as a discipline.
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Published Works
- The study of ethnomusicology : twenty-nine issues and concepts (1985) (583)
- An ethnomusicologist contemplates universals in musical sound and musical culture (2000) (256)
- Music, Culture, and Experience: Selected Papers of John Blacking (1995) (211)
- In the course of performance : studies in the world of musical improvisation (1999) (206)
- Heartland Excursions: Ethnomusicological Reflections on Schools of Music (1995) (202)
- Thoughts on Improvisation: A Comparative Approach (1974) (179)
- The Study Of Ethnomusicology (1983) (173)
- The Garland encyclopedia of world music (2001) (164)
- Music in primitive culture (1956) (108)
- Comparative musicology and anthropology of music : essays on the history of ethnomusicology (1991) (87)
- Mozart and the Ethnomusicological Study of Western Culture (an essay in four movements) (1989) (72)
- Theory and method in ethnomusicology (1965) (69)
- Folk And Traditional Music Of The Western Continents (1974) (68)
- The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-Three Discussions (2015) (63)
- Musical Improvisation: Art, Education, and Society (2010) (44)
- Excursions in World Music (1992) (44)
- Ethnomusicology and the Teaching of World Music (1992) (42)
- Nettl's Elephant: On the History of Ethnomusicology (2010) (36)
- Some Linguistic Approaches to Musical Analysis (1958) (36)
- Musics of the world's cultures : a source book for music educators (1998) (33)
- Some Aspects of the History of World Music in the Twentieth Century: Questions, Problems, and Concepts (1978) (32)
- Eight urban musical cultures : tradition and change (1979) (29)
- Oh Freedom: George Russell , John Coltrane, and Modal Jazz (1998) (27)
- North American Indian musical styles (1954) (24)
- Taqsim Nahawand: A Study of Sixteen Performances by Jihad Racy (1973) (20)
- Blackfoot Musical Thought: Comparative Perspectives (1991) (19)
- An ethnomusicological perspective (2005) (19)
- The Musical Bow in Southern Africa (1953) (18)
- 2. The role of music in primitive culture (1956) (18)
- Folk Music in the United States: An Introduction (1976) (18)
- Persian Popular Music in 1969 (1972) (18)
- Historical Aspects of Ethnomusicology (1958) (17)
- World Music in the Twentieth Century: A Survey of Research on Western Influence (1986) (15)
- In Honor of Our Principal Teachers (1984) (15)
- Encounters in Ethnomusicology: A Memoir (2002) (14)
- Daramad of chahargah : a study in the performance practice of Persian music (1972) (14)
- Eight Urban Musical Cultures (1980) (13)
- Music and context : essays for John M. Ward (1989) (13)
- Contemporary music and music cultures (1975) (13)
- The Hymns of the Amish: An Example of Marginal Survival (1957) (13)
- Infant Musical Development and Primitive Music (1956) (12)
- Contemplating the Concept of Improvisation and Its History in Scholarship (2013) (12)
- Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression. STEVEN FELD (1984) (12)
- We’re on the Map: Reflections on SEM in 1955 and 2005 (2006) (12)
- An introduction to folk music in the United States (1960) (12)
- Change in Folk and Primitive Music: A Survey of Methods and Studies (1955) (11)
- This thing called music : essays in honor of Bruno Nettl (2015) (10)
- What’s to be Learned? Comments on Teaching Music in the World and Teaching World Music at Home (2002) (10)
- Comparison and Comparative Method in Ethnomusicology (1973) (10)
- `Musical thinking' and `thinking about music' in ethnomusicology: An essay of personal (1994) (9)
- A Technique of Ethnomusicology Applied to Western Culture (Comments on Merriam, "Purposes of Ethnomusicology") (1963) (9)
- LITERATURE, ART, AND MUSIC: Folk Song Style and Culture. Alan Lomax (1970) (8)
- Folk Music in the United States (1976) (8)
- Musical Values and Social Values: Symbols in Iran (1980) (8)
- The Radif of Persian Music: Studies of Structure and Cultural Context (1989) (8)
- Some Contributions of Ethnomusicology (2012) (7)
- Ethnomusicology; A Study of Its Nature, Its Problems, Methods and Representative Personalities to Which Is Added a Bibliography. Third Much Enlarged Edition of 'Musicologica' (1959) (7)
- ATTITUDES TOWARDS PERSIAN MUSIC IN TEHRAN, 1969 (1970) (7)
- Observations on Meaningless Peyote Song Texts (1953) (7)
- Notes on Musical Composition in Primitive Culture (1954) (7)
- Studies in Blackfoot Indian Musical Culture, Part I: Traditional Uses and Functions (1967) (7)
- Unifying Factors in Folk and Primitive Music (1956) (7)
- The Radif of Persian Music, Studies of Structure and Cultural Context in the Classical Music of Iran (1993) (6)
- NOTES ON INFANT MUSICAL DEVELOPMENT (1956) (6)
- Speculations on Musical Style and Musical Content in Acculturation (1963) (6)
- POLYPHONY IN NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN MUSIC (1961) (6)
- The Folk Songs of North America in the English Language (1961) (6)
- Nettl's Elephant (2010) (6)
- Musical Cartography and the Distribution of Music (1960) (6)
- Musics of Multicultural America (1997) (6)
- Inner Tempo and Melodic Tempo (1960) (5)
- Studies in ethnomusicology (1966) (5)
- Persian Classical Music in Israel: A Preliminary Report (1986) (5)
- Becoming an Ethnomusicologist: A Miscellany of Influences (2013) (5)
- Text-Music Relationships in Arapaho Songs (1954) (5)
- ASPECTS OF FORM IN THE INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE OF THE PERSIAN A VAZ (1974) (4)
- My Music@@@Community of Music: An Ethnographic Seminar in Champaign-Urbana (1995) (4)
- Preliminary Remarks on Urban Folk Music in Detroit (1957) (4)
- Strophic Form and Asymmetrical Repetition in Four American Indian Songs (2011) (4)
- On world music as a concept in the history of music scholarship (2013) (4)
- MUSICAL CULTURE OF THE ARAPAHO1 (1955) (4)
- Towards the Comparative Study of the Structure of Traditional Repertoires (1968) (3)
- Studies in Blackfoot Indian Musical Culture, Part III: Three Genres of Song (1968) (3)
- Have You Changed Your Mind?: Reflections on Sixty Years in Ethnomusicology (2018) (3)
- Internal Interrelationships in Persian Classical Music: The Dastgah of Shur in Eighteen Radifs (1987) (3)
- Interlude: An Ethnomusicological Perspective (2007) (3)
- THE SONGS OF ISHI: MUSICAL STYLE OF THE YAHI INDIANS (1965) (3)
- Arrows and Circles: An Anniversary Talk About Fifty Years of Ictm and the Study of Traditional Music (1998) (3)
- Musical Style of the Modoc (1955) (3)
- BIOGRAPHY OF A BLACKFOOT INDIAN SINGER (1968) (2)
- Landmarks in the Study of Improvisation (2016) (2)
- 8. American primitive music north of Mexico (1956) (2)
- Following the Elephant: Ethnomusicologists Contemplate Their Discipline (2016) (2)
- Transposition as a Composition Technique in Folk and Primitive Music (1958) (2)
- Improvisation. Analytical, Theoretical, and Critical Approaches. Selected Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference of the Dutch-Flemish Society for Music Theory, 23-24 February, Prince Claus Conservatory, Groningen, The Netherlands (2008) (2)
- Cheremis Musical Styles (2021) (2)
- The Demonstration Collection of E. M. Von Hornbostel and the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv (1964) (2)
- Musical Improvisation: Art, Society, Education (2009) (2)
- Non-Western and Folk Music, and Ethnomusicology (1982) (2)
- The IFMC/ICTM and the Development of Ethnomusicology in the United States (1988) (2)
- Ideas about music and musical thought : Ethnomusicological perspectives (1996) (2)
- Recording Primitive and Folk Music in the Field (1954) (2)
- Notes on Musical Areas (1958) (2)
- Stylistic Variety in North American Indian Music (1953) (2)
- RELATING THE PRESENT TO THE PAST THOUGHTS ON THE STUDY OF MUSICAL CHANGE AND CULTURE CHANGE IN ETHNOMUSICOLOGY (2013) (1)
- Stylistic Change in Folk Music (1955) (1)
- Some Notes on Popular Music in my (Professional) Life (2017) (1)
- Contemplating Ethnomusicology: What Have We Learned? (2010) (1)
- Folk Songs of the Ukraine (1959) (1)
- Reference Materials In Ethnomusicology (1967) (1)
- What Are the Great Discoveries of Your Field (2013) (1)
- Notes on Ethnomusicology in Postwar Europe (1959) (1)
- Folk Music of Canada's Oldest Polish Community (1981) (1)
- Iranian classical music: the discourse and practice of creativity (2017) (1)
- The Musical Style of English Ballads Collected in Indiana (1955) (1)
- Heartland Excursions: Ethnological Reflections on Schools of Music (1997) (1)
- The Ethnomusicologist and Black Music (1990) (1)
- Survey of Courses in Ethno-Musicology: Part Two (1956) (1)
- The Shawnee Musical Style: Historical Perspective in Primitive Music (1953) (1)
- The Folklore and Folk Music Archivist. George List. (1959) (1)
- The seminal eighties: a north american perspective of the beginnings of musicology and ethnomusicology (1995) (1)
- Reference materials in ethnomusicology : a bibliographic essay (1967) (1)
- List of Examples of Primitive Music (1956) (0)
- Voices of a People: Yiddish Folk Songs (1965) (0)
- A Survey of Courses in Ethno-Musicology and Related Subjects (1954) (0)
- 3. The development and disciplines of ethnomusicology (1956) (0)
- Reference materials in ethnomusicology : a bibliographic essay on primitive, oriental, and folk music (1965) (0)
- The Indiana University School of Music: A History@@@Juilliard: A History (2003) (0)
- Zoltano Kodaly Octogenario Sacrum (1964) (0)
- The Iroquois Eagle Dance, an Offshoot of the Calumet Dance . William N. Fenton , Gertrude Prokosch Kurath . (1954) (0)
- Musicological Studies in American Ethnological Journals (1955) (0)
- The Music of Iran; An Ethnomusicologist Contemplates Mozart (1991) (0)
- World Musics in Context (Book) (2003) (0)
- Albanian and South Slavic Oral Epic Poetry@@@Studies in Russian Historical Song@@@Lithuanian Narrative Songs (1955) (0)
- The Anthropology of Western Art Music (2004) (0)
- "The Lachmann Problem": An Unsung Chapter in Comparative Musicology (2006) (0)
- Examples of primitive music (1956) (0)
- Czech and Slovak Songs Collected in Detroit (1957) (0)
- Editor's Preface (1975) (0)
- An English Songbook; Part Songs and Sacred Music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance for One to Six Voices (1962) (0)
- Adler in America – A Conversation (2017) (0)
- An Actor's Holiday with Theodore Bikel (1957) (0)
- The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads with Their Texts, According to the Extant Records of Great Britain and America. Vol. IV, Ballads 245 to 299 (1963) (0)
- Review: A Bibliography of North American Folklore and Folksong by Charles Haywood (1964) (0)
- Shirli Gilbert. Music in the Holocaust: Confronting Life in the Nazi Ghettos and Camps. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xii, 243 pp., photographs, musical notations, notes, references, index. (2007) (0)
- Blackfoot Musical Thought: Comparative Perspectives@@@Women in North American Indian Music: Six Essays (1991) (0)
- Studies in Blackfoot Indian Musical Culture, Part II: Musical Life of the Montana Blackfoot, 1966 (1967) (0)
- Ethnomusicology of the Nineties: A Historical Perspective (2002) (0)
- American Indian music north of Mexico : its styles and areas (1953) (0)
- Dahomey Suite for Oboe and Piano, by Mieczyslaw Kolinski (1960) (0)
- The Song Tradition of Tristan da Cunha@@@Songs of the Doukhobors, an Introductory Outline (1971) (0)
- Folksongs and Dances of Iran (1962) (0)
- Music for the Classical Oud (1966) (0)
- What Makes Music European: Looking beyond Sound (2012) (0)
- The Art of the Bagpipe@@@The Donegal Piper; Irish Bagpipe Tunes (1962) (0)
- The Music of the Ballads . Jan Philip Schinhan . (1959) (0)
- Music in the Dialogue of Cultures: Traditional Music and Cultural Policy@@@Schladminger Gesprache zum Thema Musik und Tourismus (1992) (0)
- Music in the Holocaust: Confronting Life in the Nazi Ghettos and Camps (2007) (0)
- Following the Elephant (2016) (0)
- Report on the 1964 Annual Meeting of the Society of Ethnomusicology (1964) (0)
- Studies in Blackfoot Indian Musical Culture, Part IV: Notes on Composition, Text Settings, and Performance (1968) (0)
- Ethnomusicology and Pop, Forever Fraught (2021) (0)
- World Musics in Context: A Comprehensive Survey of the World's Major Musical Cultures (review) (2003) (0)
- Ethnomusicology and Modern Music History@@@Comparative Musicology and the Anthropology of Music: Essays on the History of Ethnomusicology (1992) (0)
- Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council, Volume I, 1969 and Volume 11, 1970 (1972) (0)
- A Bibliography of North American Folklore and Folksong . Charles Haywood . (1964) (0)
- Drums of the Yoruba of Nigeria@@@Voice of the Congo (1955) (0)
- The Exotic Sounds of Bali (1967) (0)
- 5. Rhythm and form (1956) (0)
- The Music of the Indians of Northern California@@@Women in North American Indian Music: Six Essays@@@Blackfoot Musical Thought: Comparative Perspectives (1991) (0)
- General Articles on Music Structure and Generation (1985) (0)
- The Topoke People of the Congo (1960) (0)
- 10. Primitive music in perspective (1956) (0)
- A Reply to Gourlay (1978) (0)
- The Music of the Folk Songs: Vol. 5 of the Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore (1962) (0)
- Folk Songs of the Philippines (1962) (0)
- Murut Music of North Borneo (1963) (0)
- Serbocroatian Heroic Songs: Vol. I. Novi Pazar: English Translations (1955) (0)
- 9. African and new world Negro music (1956) (0)
- Family Relationships in Lamba Tales (1956) (0)
- George Herzog: An 80th Birthday Appreciation (1981) (0)
- Authentic Maori Chants (1960) (0)
- 4. Scale and melody (1956) (0)
- The Radif of Persian Music: Studies of Structure and Cultural Context@@@Accompanying Cassette: The Persian Radif in Comparative Perspective@@@La musique iranienne: Tradition et evolution (1988) (0)
- 7. Musical instruments (1956) (0)
- Omaha Indian Music: Historic Recordings from the Fletcher/LaFlesche Collections@@@Songs and Dances of the Eastern Indians from Medicine Spring & Allegany@@@Powwow Songs: Music of the Plains Indians (1988) (0)
- North and South American Indian Music (1967) (0)
- AME!RICAN ETHNOLOGICAL JOURNALS (2016) (0)
- Interpreting the Musical Map : Recalling Some Neglected Classics (2009) (0)
- Discourse in Ethnomusicology II: A Tribute to Alan P. Merriam (1984) (0)
- Ancient ballads : traditionally sung in New England : from the Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad collection Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont (1960) (0)
- Reference Tools for Ethnomusicology (1960) (0)
- Review: The Music of the Ballads by Jan Philip Schinhan (1959) (0)
- Ethnomusicological evaluations with Bruno Nettl (2012) (0)
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