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Palestinian Arab Music (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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Palestinian Arab Music (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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This long-awaited project--some forty years in the making--presents
the results of a major research effort to determine the parameters
of the stylistic variability of Arab folk music in Israel. Central
to this old and highly improvised musical tradition is a unique
modal framework that combines the concept of "maqam"--the
foundation of Arab music theory--with other characteristics,
including those of the text. "Palestinian Arab Music" is a
comprehensive analysis of this music as actually practiced,
examining both musical and nonmusical factors, their connection
with the traits of individual performers, and their interaction
with sociocultural phenomena.
Working initially with their own 1957 invention, the Cohen-Katz
Melograph, and later with computers, Dalia Cohen and Ruth Katz
recorded and digitized several hundred Palestinian music
performances. The authors analyzed the musical tradition in light
of its main variables. These include musical parameters, modal
frameworks, the form and structure of the music, its poetic texts,
and aspects of the social functions of the tradition. As a result
of their study, the vexed aspect of intonation in practice is
revealed to exist in a special relationship with the scale systems
or "maqamat," which are in turn of great importance to organizing
the music and determining its modal systems.
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