Kathleen Schlesinger (1862, in

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– 1953, in London) was a British music archaeologist and curator of

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at the

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.A. R. Meuss, ''Intervals, Scales, Tones and the Concert Pitch C'', 2004
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and was called in 1911 "the greatest authority on the subject". In 1939, her ''Greek Aulos'' presented her analysis of the

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used on aulos instruments in

ancient Greek music Music was almost universally present in ancient Greek society, from marriages, funerals, and religious ceremonies to theatre, folk music, and the ballad-like reciting of epic poetry. It thus played an integral role in the lives of ancient Greek ...

. She was editor of ''

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''. She was responsible for "practically all of the articles" about musical instruments in the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' of 1911.''The Reader's Guide to the Encyclopædia Britannica'', Encyclopædia Britannica Company, 191
p. 185
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Bibliography

* Kathleen Schlesinger, ''The instruments of the modern orchestra & early records of the precursors of the violin family, with over 500 illustrations and plates'', London: W. Reeves, 1910

* --, ''A bibliography of musical instruments and archaeology, intended as a guide to the study of the history of musical instruments'', London: W. Reeves, 1912

* --, ''The Greek Aulos: A Study of Its Mechanism and of Its Relation to the Modal System of Ancient Greek Music, Followed by a Survey of the Greek Harmoniai in Survival Or Rebirth in Folk-music'', Methuen, 1939

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Schlesinger, Kathleen British musicologists Women musicologists British curators Employees of the British Museum 1862 births 1953 deaths British women curators Music historians