Towards a Global Music Theory: Practical Concepts and Methods for the Analysis of Music Across Human Cultures
Автор:Mark Hijleh Год: 2012 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 227 ISBN: 1409423360 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. Yet music theory as an academic discipline is only just beginning to respond to such a milieu. 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, not least the hybrid musics that influence (and increasingly define) more and more of the world's musical practices. "Towards a Global Music Theory" proposes a number of such concepts and methods stemming from durational and acoustic relationships between "twos" and "threes" as...
