Expanding perspectives: materialising musical instruments

Wistreich, R. and Rossi Rognoni, G. (2024) Expanding perspectives: materialising musical instruments. Journal of Musicological Research, 43 (2-3) pp. 57-75. ISSN 0141-1896 (print) 1547-7304 (online)

Abstract

This article suggests the potential of organology is under-developed. It proposes an expanded vision for the discipline’s relevance from the perspective of the non-organological world, which in turn, undervalues organology’s potential for informing non-musical disciplines. It argues for re-positioning musical instruments—highly specialised manufactured objects with complex and particular properties, functions, and contexts—alongside, and in relation to other equally complex material objects, their functions, practices, networks, histories, geographies, and ideologies. This re-evaluation aims to encourage organologists to consider the “wider materiality” of the objects they study and to seek out new disciplinary connections beyond their traditional spheres of reference.

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Official URL:	https://doi.org/10.1080/01411896.2024.2405712
Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Organology, materiality, society, culture, disciplinary connections
Subjects:	M Music and Books on Music > ML Literature on music > History and criticism > Instruments and instrumental music Musical Instruments Music History Music and society
Division:	Collections (Library & Museum) Musicology
Depositing User:	Richard Wistreich
Date Deposited:	17 Sep 2024 15:46
Last Modified:	23 Jan 2026 10:10
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1080/01411896.2024.2405712
URI:	https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/2537

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