Kathleen Schlesinger

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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]

Bibliography[]

  • 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[]

  1. ^ A. R. Meuss, Intervals, Scales, Tones and the Concert Pitch C, 2004 ISBN 1902636465, p. 27
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b The Reader's Guide to the Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica Company, 1913 p. 185
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