1937 WORLD HISTORY OF THE DANCE by Curt Sachs VINTAGE Book Illust FIRST EDITION

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1937 WORLD HISTORY OF THE DANCE by Curt Sachs VINTAGE Book Illust FIRST EDITION :
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by Curt SachsTranslated by Bessie Schonberg
1937Stated 1st Edition
Vintage Book
Illustrated
469 Pages Including Index
Published by : W. W. Norton and Company, New York
Condition : This book has no dust cover jacket. It has fading, rubbing, scuffing, age toning, some stains, front cover is cracked at inside hinge-(see pic 8) Page 147 has a 2\' tear at bottom margin-(see pic 10) Please look at all of the pictures as sometimes it is possible we may have Info from Wikipedia
Curt SachsJune 29, 1881 – February 5, 1959) was a German-born but American-domiciledmusicologist. He was one of the founders of modernorganologythe study ofmusical instruments.

Born inBerlin, Sachs studiedpiano,music theoryandcompositionas a youth in that city. However, his doctorate from Berlin University (where he was later professor of musicology) in 1904 was on the history ofart, with his thesis on thesculptureofVerrocchio. He began a career as an art historian, but promptly became more and more devoted to music, eventually being appointed director of the Staatliche Instrumentensammlung, a large collection of musical instruments. He reorganised and restored much of the collection, and his career as an organologist began.

In 1913, Sachs saw the publication of his bookReal-Lexicon der Musikinstrumente, probably the most comprehensive survey of musical instruments in 200 years. The following year, he and Erich Moritz von Hornbostel published the work for which they are probably now best known inZeitschrift für Ethnologie, a new system ofmusical instrument classification. It is today known as theSachs-Hornbostelsystem. It has been much revised over the years, and has been the subject of some criticism, but it remains the most widely used system of classification byethnomusicologistsand organologists.

When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Sachs was dismissed from his posts in Germany by theNazi Partybecause he was aJew. As a result, he moved toParis, and later to the United States, where he settled inNew York City. From 1937 to 1953 he taught atNew York University, and also worked at theNew York Public Library.

His numerous books include works onrhythm,danceand musical instruments, with hisThe History of Musical Instruments(1940), a comprehensive survey of musical instruments worldwide throughout history, seen as one of the most important. The long relationship he had withW. W. Norton & Companybegan withThe Rise of Music in the Ancient World(1943). Although these works have been superseded by more recent research in some respects, they are still seen as essential texts in the field.

Sachs died in 1959 in New York City. In honor of Sachs\' legacy, theAmerican Musical Instrument Societyestablished the Curt Sachs Award in 1983, which it gives each year to an individual who has made significant contributions to field of organology.

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More inclusive than any other art, the dance has been associated with every phase of human life. In relation to their historical setting the author deals with the magic powers attributed to the dance, and such motives as fertility, war, marriage and health. We read that the Indian divorces his wife in the dance and, when he is ill, dances to dispel the disease; and that once in front of the Turkish soldiers sixty Greek mothers and girls danced the oldRomaiikaas they threw themselves one after another into the abyss. The book includes analyses of many forms of the art--sitting dances, dances of the hands, solo, group and couple dances--and a discussion of rhythm and melody in relation to the dance.
But it is not only because of its informative character that the book is distinguished.World History of the Dance, written with rare force and insight, communicates a feeling for its subject such as is seldom found in works of historical research. It is the author\'s understanding of the essence of the art, its exhilaration and power to break down the distinctions of ordinary life, that makes his book so rich a contribution to the knowledge and appreciation of the dance.
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