Zoltán Kodály was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, music pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher. He is well known internationally as the creator of the Kodály method of music education.
Kodály in the 1930s
Statue of Kodály at Szent István square in Pécs, Hungary
Commemorative plaque in Andrássy Avenue, Budapest
Ethnomusicology is the multidisciplinary study of music in its cultural context, investigating social, cognitive, biological, comparative, and other dimensions involved other than sound. Ethnomusicologists study music as a reflection of culture and investigate the act of musicking through various immersive, observational, and analytical approaches drawn from other disciplines such as anthropology to understand a culture’s music. This discipline emerged from comparative musicology, initially focusing on non-Western music, but later expanded to embrace the study of any and all different kinds of music of the world.
Jaap Kunst, early ethnomusicologist and creator of the term 'ethno-musicology', plays the Indonesian triton, beside other traditional Indonesian instruments
Frances Densmore recording Blackfoot chief Mountain Chief for the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1916
Note the number of Western and non-Western tunings that occur within the valid tuning range of the syntonic temperament.
