ABSTRACT
That ethnomusicology and the history of music depend on each other and should be closely connected has been suggested frequently, from Guido Adler and Carl Stumpf to the present day. In 1919, Georg Schünemann’s inaugural speech at the University of Berlin dealt with “the relations between comparative musicology and music history”. Several scholars have devoted their life’s work to this task, for instance, Curt Sachs and Marius Schneider. As to the present time, I would point to the Hungarian school of musicology. The relations between ethnomusicology and the history of music have been chosen as a principal subject at several congresses, especially in 1953 at Bamberg, in l961 in New York, and in 1964 in Budapest.
