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Curt Sachs
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 29 June 1881
- Died
- 5 February 1959
- Works
- 59
Top works
- Storia della danza
- Das klavier /c von Curt Sachs ; mit 16 tafeln und 10 textabbildungen
- Die Musik der Antike
- Die Musikinstrumente Birmas und Assams im K. Ethnographischen Museum zu München
- Histoire de la danse
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1881
- Active to
- 1959
medieval
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 3
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The biofilm matrix
· 2010 · cited 8,879x
- Biofilms: an emergent form of bacterial life
· 2016 · cited 5,333x
- Echocardiographic assessment of left ventricular hypertrophy: Comparison to necropsy findings
· 1986 · cited 4,913x
- Bcl-2 heterodimerizes in vivo with a conserved homolog, Bax, that accelerates programed cell death
· 1993 · cited 4,725x
- The Immune Landscape of Cancer
· 2018 · cited 4,685x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “The strange, never-ceasing drones used in the choral singing of Tibet belong in the Indian, not the Chinese sphere of Tibetan civilization.”
- “[In Burmese music,] "These penetrant oboes, which lead the melody instead of the tinkling gongs of Java and Bali, are definitely Indian. But still more Indian is the unparalleled drum chime of, normally, twenty-four carefully tuned drums, suspended inside the walls of a circular pen, which the player, squatting in the center, strikes with his bare hands in swift, toccata like melodies with stupendous technique and delicacy"”
- “When we read in Bharata's classical book of the twenty-two microtones in ancient Indian octaves, of innumerable scales and modes, and of seventeen melodic patterns and their pentatonic and hexatonic alterations, we realize that music at, or even before, the beginning of the first century AD was by no means archaic. Indeed, there is no reason to believe that India's ancient music differed substantially from her modern music.”
- “China also passed on to Japan the ceremonial dances of India with their music, which were Japanized as the solemn and colorful Bugaku.”
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- date of birth
- 1881-06-29
- date of death
- 1959-02-05
- name in native language
- Curt Sachs
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- Curt Sachs
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Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Curt Sachs, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Categories
1881 births1959 deaths20th-century American anthropologists20th-century German musicologistsAmerican ethnomusicologistsDance historiansEmigrants from Nazi Germany to the United StatesGerman ethnomusicologistsHumboldt University of Berlin alumniJewish American composersJewish classical musiciansJewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United StatesJewish musicologistsMusicologists from BerlinNew York University faculty