Ethnomusicology at MEG
Throughout the twentieth century, in parallel to major collecting campaigns, the description and analysis of these collections has occupied countless researchers trying to establish universal classification systems. The MEG’s ethnomusicology department curates two complementary collections: musical instruments and sound recordings, from the five continents. The two collections teach us a great deal about instrument making and the composition of musical repertories.
The first section presents instruments which have inspired and nourished research work in classificatory organology (the study of musical instruments). The second part displays a selection of instruments related to recordings hold in the MEG's Archives internationales de musique populaire (AIMP).
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© 2015 Musée d'ethnographie, Genève
Ville de Genève, Département de la culture et du sport