Charles Murray and “The Impossibility of Being Nonjudgmental” (part 1)

In Chapter 5, "Excellence and its Identification," of Charles Murray's book (Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950) the author writes in the section titled The Impossibility of Being Nonjudgmental: To accept the position I just laid out requires one to adopt considerable humility about the arts in …

dhawq, or "courtesy" in music accompaniment

This section of Racy's "Making Music in the Arab World" could be just as applicable to the non-Arab musician. In the chapter titled simply, Music, he begins the section titled "The art of accompanying" with When called for, musical accompaniment plays a crucial role in the evocative process. Basically, an accompanying performer must be musically …