ABSTRACT
Ethnomusicology, as a field of study, developed in the post-World War II environment of the 1950s. Much early work in ethnomusicology owed a great deal to the earlier field known as comparative musicology, or vergleichende musikwissenschaft, defined by Guido Adler as “the comparison of the musical works-especially the folk songs-of the various peoples of the earth for ethnographical purposes, and the classification of them according to their various forms” (Adler 1885:14).
