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Title

Digital Hornbostel & Sachs Classification of Musical Instruments

Subject

Erich Moritz von Hombostel, Curt Sachs
Musical instruments
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The Digital Hornbostel & Sachs System is a taxonomy based on the “Classification of Musical Instruments” by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs (see Systematik der Musikinstrumente. Ein Versuch. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 46/4-5, 1914, 553-590; English version: Classification of Musical Instruments: Translated from the Original German by Anthony Baines and Klaus P. Wachsmann. The Galpin Society Journal 14, 1961, 3-29; DOI: 10.2307/842168; https://www.jstor.org/stable/842168). It was developed at the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for documentation purposes in its database and catalogue, and was made available in SKOS format within the framework of a cooperation with the ACDH-OeAW in 2015.

Publisher

Phonogrammarchiv, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Creator

Phonogrammarchiv, Austrian Academy of Sciences

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application/rdf+xml

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https://vocabs.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/hsinstruments/ConceptScheme

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