Important People

Inventors:

	Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877.
	Alexander J. Ellis invented the cents system in 1885 which was a system that divided the octave in 1200 equal units which allowed for objective measurement of non-Western scales.

Early ethnomusicologists:

Béla Vikár (1859-1945)

Béla Bartók(1881-1945)

Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967)

Cecil Sharp (1859-1924)

Jesse Walter Fewkes (1850-1930)

Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838-1923)

Francis La Flesche (1857-1932)

Frances Densmore (1867-1957)

George Herzog (1901-84)