Towards a Global Music Theory

Name: Towards a Global Music Theory
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Conferences, workshops and curricula are for the first time beginning to develop around the theme of 'world music theory', as students, teachers and researchers recognize the need for analytical concepts and methods applicable to a wider range of human musics. This book proposes a number of such concepts and methods and Mark Hijleh presents a broad attempt to apply them to a variety of musics in a relevant way that can be readily apprehended and applied by students, scholars and teachers. > Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the cross-pollenization of world musical materials and practices has accelerated precipitously, due in large part to advances in higher-speed communications and travel. We live now in a world of global musical practice that will only continue to blossom and develop through the twenty-first century and beyond.\nYet music theory as an academic discipline is only just beginning to respond to such a milieu. Conferences, workshops and curricula are for t.