This long-awaited project 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.

Palestinian Arab Music: A Maqam Tradition in Practice (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)

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Katz, Ruth

Cohen, Dalia

Music

University of Chicago Press

This long-awaited project 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.

A Language of Its Own: Sense and Meaning in the Making of Western Art Music

The Western musical tradition has produced not only music, but also countless writings about music that remain in continuous—and enormously influential—dialogue with their subject. With sweeping scope and philosophical depth, A Language of Its Own traces the past millennium of this ongoing exchange.Ruth Katz argues that the indispensible relationship between intellectual production and musical creation gave rise to the Western conception of music. This evolving and sometimes conflicted process, in turn, shaped the art form itself. As ideas entered music from the contexts in which it existed, its internal language developed in tandem with shifts in intellectual and social history. Katz explores how this infrastructure allowed music to explain itself from within, creating a self-referential and rational foundation that has begun to erode in recent years.A magisterial exploration of a frequently overlooked intersection of Western art and philosophy, A Language of Its Own restores music to its rightful place in the history of ideas.  

Volume I, Substance, contains, under the heading Substance, the writings of Plato, Plotinus, Boethius, Marsilio Ficcino, Tommaso Campanella, Johannes Kepler, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Feruccio Busoni. Under the heading Essence and Distinctness are found the writings of Aristotle, Aristoxenus, Philodemus, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich W.J. Schelling, George W.F. Hegel, Johann Herbart, and Eduard Hanslick.

Contemplating Music: Source Readings in the Aesthetics of Music : Substance (Aesthetics in Music Series)

Pendragon Pr

The first three volumes of Contemplating Music pinpointed the kinds of issues raised in the course of systematic philosophizing about music. Volume IV, Community of Discourse, attempts to bridge philosophical and sociological issues, without presuming to provide a full panorama of the questions raised in sociological inquiries concerning music. The latter, the compilers believe, deserves separate treatment. Rather, throughout Contemplating Music emphasis is placed on opposing intellectual strands, seeking to make clear their relative primacy in different periods and their possible relationships with other ideas. This volume contains the writings of David Hume, Max Weber, J.W.N. Sullivan, Paul Honigsheim, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, W.A. Zhdanov, John H. Mueller, Leonard B. Meyer, Edward A. Lippman, and Stanley Cavell.

Contemplating Music: Source Readings in the Aesthetics of Music : Community of Discourse (Aesthetics in Music Series)

In this cultural history, Ruth Katz conceives of opera as a laboratory dedicated to exploration of the powers hidden in the interaction between words and music. Opera combines not only music and libretto, but the sensuality, acting out, and lyricism that characterize the popular culture of the Italians. The Powers of Music is thus a contribution to cultural studies, providing unique insight into the social meaning of opera in Italy.  According to Katz, opera's origins in Renaissance Italy can be traced to numerous characteristics of life at that time. Among them are: the belief of the Humanists that the magical properties of music could be harnessed; the transition from polyphony to monody that gave musical expression to individualism; the melodramatic propensity of Italian culture reflected in its literary and theatrical arts; and the salons of Florentine aristocrats, scientists, and artists whose agenda included the challenge to rediscover how the ancient Greeks succeeded in heightening the rhetorical power of words by allying them with music. Katz discusses each of these factors in detail.  In her new introduction, Katz reconsiders her original work by discussing three topics. The first has to do with the perception that there has been a major change in the academic climate for this kind of analysis. The second relates to her concern with the eighteenth-century expansion of the Florentine comparison of the attributes of the arts, from which music emerges as the purest of all, for being freest of external reference. Third, she reconsiders her initial impression that opera was on the wane. The Powers of Music is an intriguing study that will be of interest to sociologists, cultural historians, and scholars of communication and popular culture.

The Powers of Music: Aesthetic Theory and the Invention of Opera

Routledge

Once shunned, interdisciplinarity has now become fashionable—but badly in need of unpacking. The transfer of ideas from one field to another requires full understanding of the ways in which they are used and understood, where they come from and where they are going. This book calls attention to certain linguistic tools that served scholars in the past and that are still relevant today–if properly employed. It offers a roadmap that inter-relates problems within and between the sciences–human and natural. Throughout, the book interpolates excerpts from scholarly texts that light the road. Spelling out how research may go beyond the mere assembly of facts, it invites the reader to join a sequence of steps that highlights the processes which problem solving entails. Ruth Katz (Ph.D. Columbia University) is one of the founding members of the Department of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Upon receiving the prestigious Israel Prize in 2012, her work was cited for shedding light on such things as the interdisciplinary processes implicated in “the origin of opera, the history of Western notation, the relationship of stylistic change to the history of ideas, music’s place in philosophy, and the role of musical aesthetics in cognition.” She founded the Excellence Program at the University and co-founded the Laboratory for the study of music. Her most recent book, hailed as “magisterial,” is entitled A Language of Its Own: Sense and Meaning in the Making of Western Art Music (University of Chicago Press, 2009). It is an analysis of the decisions that underlay the crafting and understanding of stylistic change.

The Discursive March of Thought: An Interdisciplinary Roadmap

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Israel Academic Press

I Hungry

I Hungry summarizes my lifelong journey of struggles, revelations, and wins in restoring balance and harmony in my health. I am proud of my health and how I look and feel. I am sure you want the same since you are reading this. Taking care of my family and myself involves effort and planning, which I lay out in this book. Evolving to be my healthiest self has led me to inspire and educate others along their journey to wellness. Parents always ask me, "Ruth, how do you do it? Make it easy for me. Just tell me what to do. Tell me what to buy and what to avoid." People are sick of being sick and tired. They are looking for answers they can't always get from their doctors, which is where inner wisdom, intuition, and research come into play. It becomes a spiritual quest on loving yourself and wanting to spread the love. I am always on a mission for self-improvement and will continue to evolve as necessary.\n"I Hungry" will help you to:\n- Figure out what foods to feed your family and yourself. 
- Make healthier food choices 
- Find healthier substitute foods 
- Inspire you to try new foods and flavors and step outside your comfort zone 
- Feel more confident in the kitchen 
- Inspire your kids to want to eat healthier 
- Understand why kids are picky 
- Learn how to make being healthy more convenient 
- Use tips from other parents 
- Try recipes of foods to prepare 
- Healthy suggestions for food shopping lists 
- Most of all, learn what has worked for myself and my family and to be 
able to integrate this into what works for you and yours.\nWith love and gratitude, Ruth J. Katz

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Palestinian Arab Music: A Maqam Tradition in Practice (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)

Palestinian Arab Music: A Maqam Tradition in Practice (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)

A Language of Its Own: Sense and Meaning in the Making of Western Art Music

A Language of Its Own: Sense and Meaning in the Making of Western Art Music

Contemplating Music: Source Readings in the Aesthetics of Music : Substance (Aesthetics in Music Series)

Contemplating Music: Source Readings in the Aesthetics of Music : Community of Discourse (Aesthetics in Music Series)

The Powers of Music: Aesthetic Theory and the Invention of Opera

The Discursive March of Thought: An Interdisciplinary Roadmap

I Hungry

I Hungry