Towards a Global Music Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Towards a Global Music Theory write by Mark Hijleh. This book was released on 2016-02-24. Towards a Global Music Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 manifested in various interrelated aspects of music, including rhythm, melody, harmony, process, texture, timbre and tuning, and offers suggestions for how such concepts and methods might be applied effectively to the understanding of music in a variety of contexts. While some of the bases for this foray into possible methods for a twenty-first century music theory lie along well established acoustical and psycho-acoustical lines, Dr Mark Hijleh presents a broad attempt to apply them conceptually and comprehensively to a variety of musics in a relevant way that can be readily apprehended and applied by students, scholars and teachers.
Towards a Global Music History
Towards a Global Music History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Towards a Global Music History write by Mark Hijleh. This book was released on 2018-12-18. Towards a Global Music History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do we explain the globalized musical world in which we find ourselves in the early 21st century and how did we arrive here? This extraordinary book outlines an understanding of the human musical story as an intercultural—and ultimately a transcultural—one, with travel and trade as the primary conditions and catalysts for the ongoing development of musical styles. Starting with the cultural and civilizational precedents that gave rise to the first global trading and travel network in both directions across the Afro-Eurasian Old World Web in the form of the Silk Road, the book proceeds to the rise of al-Andalus and its influence on Europe through the Iberian peninsula before considering the fusion of European, African and indigenous musics that emerged in the Americas between c1500-1920 as part of Atlantic culture and the New World Web, as well as the concurrent acceleration of globalism in music through European empires and exoticism. The book concludes by examining the musical implications of our current Age of Instantaneous Exchange that technology permits, and by revisiting the question of interculturality and transculurality in music.
Revisiting Music Theory
Revisiting Music Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Revisiting Music Theory write by Alfred Blatter. This book was released on 2012-08-06. Revisiting Music Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Revisiting Music Theory: A Guide to the Practice contains the basics of music theory with the vocabulary used in harmonic and formal analysis. The book assumes few music reading skills, and progresses to include the basic materials of music from J. S. Bach to the twentieth century. Based on Blatter’s own three decades of teaching music theory, this book is aimed at a one or two year introductory course in music theory, can serve for individual study, or as a review for graduate students returning to school. Drawing examples from well-known classical works, as well as folk and popular music, the book shows how theory is applied to practice. The book is divided into five parts. The first part introduces music notation, reviewing the basics of pitch, time, and dynamics as represented in written music. Part 2 introduces the concept of melody, covering modes, scales, scale degrees, and melodic form. Part 3 introduces harmony, dealing with harmonic progression, rhythm, and chord types. Part 4 addresses part writing and harmonic analysis. Finally, Part 5 addresses musical form, and how form is used to structure a composition. Revisiting Music Theory will be a valuable textbook for students, professors, and professionals.
Fundamentals of Music Theory
Fundamentals of Music Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fundamentals of Music Theory write by Bertrand Howard. This book was released on 1966. Fundamentals of Music Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Music Theory Made Easy
Music Theory Made Easy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music Theory Made Easy write by David Harp. This book was released on 1995-11. Music Theory Made Easy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Everything you need to know about improvising in any style, composing your own songs, and jamming. For all instruments including voice, and for beginners or experienced players, this easy theory book covers scales and chord structures for folk, blues, rock, country and jazz.
