Knowra Jaap Kunst Jaap Kunst Jaap Kunst (1891–1960) was a Dutch musicologist whose research on Indonesian music helped establish ethnomusicology as a scholarly discipline and popularize its name.
Mantle Hood : An American ethnomusicologist who developed influential methods for studying music through performance and analysis. Hood built on the discipline Kunst helped name, emphasizing musicianship as part of research.
Ethnomusicology : The study of music in its cultural and social contexts, using historical, analytical, and ethnographic methods. Kunst helped establish this discipline and popularize its name.
Gamelan : An Indonesian ensemble tradition centered on tuned percussion instruments, including gongs and metallophones. Kunst’s research on Indonesian music brought gamelan traditions to scholarly attention.
The term ethnomusicology : The disciplinary name formed from Greek roots for people, music, and study, replacing the older label comparative musicology. Kunst helped popularize this name for the field he worked to establish.
Bruno Nettl : An Austrian-born American ethnomusicologist known for work on musical change, theory, and the history of the discipline. Nettl later chronicled the field Kunst helped establish.
Comparative musicology : An early scholarly approach that compared musical systems, often through notation, recordings, and acoustical analysis. Kunst’s work emerged from the comparative musicology that ethnomusicology later broadened.
Balinese gamelan : A family of Balinese ensembles featuring interlocking percussion patterns and distinctive tuning systems. Kunst documented Balinese musical traditions and their characteristic ensemble practices.
Music of Java : A 1934 book by Jaap Kunst documenting and analyzing musical traditions of the Indonesian island of Java. This influential work consolidated Kunst’s research on Javanese music.
Marius Schneider : A German musicologist who studied musical traditions and served as director of Berlin’s Phonogramm-Archiv. Schneider’s archival scholarship provides a European counterpart to Kunst’s research.
Ethnography : A research method based on sustained observation and engagement with people in their social settings. Kunst’s Indonesian research depended on documenting music within living cultural practices.
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