Towards a Global Music Theory: Practical Concepts and Methods for the Analysis of Music across Human Cultures

Abstract

In Towards a Global Music Theory, Mark Hijleh presents a method for analysing examples of repertoire from across any of the world’s musical cultures. Although he acknowledges that he is not presenting a theory for all music, he asserts that his method adopts a practical approach which can offer insights into very different kinds of music and can also capture commonalities between seemingly diverse examples. He claims that