The Origins of Music, by Carl Stumpf - one of the founding fathers of Gestalt psychology, was first published in German in 1911. Within the book, he discussed the origin and forms of musical activity as well as various theories on the origin of music. This is the first time that this important work is available in English. This is a new translation, from German into English, of Carl Stumpf's work The Origins of Music from 1911... Although the book is now 100 years old, it is enjoyable to read. The argument is logical and well-founded, and the text seems in many ways very modern... What fascinates most is that the book shows how one man's painstaking study of "The psychology of tone" and "The origins of music" formed the basis for two completely new fields of research: experimental psychology and ethnomusicology.