Dalia Cohen is professor emerita of musicology at the Hebrew University. She is the author or coauthor of six previous books. Ruth Katz is the Emanuel Alexandre Professor Emerita of Musicology at the Hebrew University. She is the author or coauthor of nine previous books.
"It is delightful to see the results of the authors' decades-long
study of Palestinian Arab music. Working on their systematic
collection of songs recorded in the 1960s and using a variety of
analytic tools, Dalia Cohen and Ruth Katz here provide a remarkable
example of methodological and analytic sophistication that will
delight those interested in the analysis of sounds and in
ethnomusicological methodology."--Anthony Seeger "Anthony Seeger"
(4/18/2005 12:00:00 AM)
"Palestinian Arab Music is a milestone in scholarship. With great
sophistication Dalia Cohen and Ruth Katz apply modern technological
tools to decipher, measure, and describe musical Palestinian
performances, and thereby address issues of aesthetics, of
individual creativity and traditional conventions, regional
differentiation, and contextual factors in the production of music.
Their quantification of qualitative musical values avoids the
mechanic analysis and insightfully describes Arab singing as a
multi-dimensional cultural performance. The application of their
method to musical performances in other cultures and other regions
will open up new horizons in the study of folklore and traditional
music."--Dan Ben-Amos "Dan Ben-Amos" (4/6/2005 12:00:00 AM)
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