内容摘要 Material culture refers to the touchable,material things——physical objects that can be seen held, felt, used——that a culture produces. Examining a cultures tools and technology can tell us a-bout the groups history and way of life. Similarly,research into the material culture of music canhelp us to understand the music-culture. The most vivid body of things in it,of course ,are musi-cal instruments. We cannot hear for ourselves the actual sound of any musical performance beforethe 1870s when the phonographwas invented,so we rely on instruments for importantinformation about music-cultures in the remote past and their development. Here we have twokinds of evidence: instruments well preserved and instruments pictured in art. Through the study of instruments,as well as paintings,written documents,and so on,we can explore the movement of music from the Near East to China over a thousand years ago,or we can outline the s...
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