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Geographical origin is sometimes used to identify a music genre, though a single geographical category will often include a wide variety of subgenres. Timothy Laurie argues that "since the early 1980s, genre has graduated from being a subset of popular music studies to being an almost ubiquitous framework for constituting and evaluating musical ...
Music geography is a sub-field within both urban geography and cultural geography. Music geography is the study of music production and consumption as a reflection of the landscape and geographical spaces surrounding it. It became evident that individuals associate music with space. [1] Historically, music was purely an oral tradition that was ...
The core topic of the conference is Chinese music theory, researching how to face the contemporary international new literary trend, and how to apply the academic vision to the global field of music theory research. Since then, tremendous changes have taken place in the academic vision of musicology research in China, and new methods and ...
Gender, race, and sexuality in music theory. Popular music [219] Suzannah Clark: born 1969 Music theory and natural order from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century (2001) Franz Schubert, history of music theory, medieval music [220] Dmitri Tymoczko: born 1969 A Geometry of Music (2010) Proposed framework for considering tonality [221]
1.1 By ethnicity or origin. ... Many musical genres are particular to some geographical region or to an ethnic, ... Music of Vatican City; By language
The musical system of ancient Greece evolved over a period of more than 500 years from simple scales of tetrachords, or divisions of the perfect fourth, into several complex systems encompassing tetrachords and octaves, as well as octave scales divided into seven to thirteen intervals.
Like the origin of language, the origin of music has been a topic for speculation and debate for centuries. [3] Leading theories include Darwin's theory of partner choice (women choose male partners based on musical displays), the idea that human musical behaviors are primarily based on behaviors of other animals (see zoomusicology), the idea that music emerged because it promotes social ...
Music theorists are those who study music theory. This category includes theorists from the ancient world, especially ancient Greece which was a particularly active centre of study, to the present day. Music theory is usually considered a subclassification of musicology, the general academic study of music.