Kathleen Schlesinger
Kathleen Schlesinger (1862, in Holywood, Ireland – 1953, in London) was a British music archaeologist and curator of musical instruments at the British Museum.[1] She specialized in the history of musical instruments and was called in 1911 "the greatest authority on the subject".[2] In 1939, her Greek Aulos presented her analysis of the modes used on aulos instruments in ancient Greek music.
She was editor of . She was responsible for "practically all of the articles" about musical instruments in the Encyclopædia Britannica of 1911.[2]
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- Kathleen Schlesinger, The instruments of the modern orchestra & early records of the precursors of the violin family, with over 500 illustrations and plates, London: W. Reeves, 1910. [1]
- --, A bibliography of musical instruments and archaeology, intended as a guide to the study of the history of musical instruments, London: W. Reeves, 1912. [2]
- --, The Greek Aulos: A Study of Its Mechanism and of Its Relation to the Modal System of Ancient Greek Music, Followed by a Survey of the Greek Harmoniai in Survival Or Rebirth in Folk-music, Methuen, 1939
Notes[]
- ^ A. R. Meuss, Intervals, Scales, Tones and the Concert Pitch C, 2004 ISBN 1902636465, p. 27
- ^ Jump up to: a b The Reader's Guide to the Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica Company, 1913 p. 185
Categories:
- Music history
- British musicologists
- Women musicologists
- British curators
- Employees of the British Museum
- 1862 births
- 1953 deaths