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Esther R. Warkov
… Esther Warkov's seminal contributions to the study of Arab music and Arab-Jewish musicians in Iraq and Israel feature prominently …
Guillaume André Villoteau
… Guillaume André Villoteau was a French Musicologist. He was particularly interested in Arabic music, and specially in Egyptian music. Full … … 0 … Ethnomusicology … Conductor … Choir … Egypt … Arabic … Guillaume André Villoteau …
Albert Elias
… teacher. He played with some of the greatest stars of Iraqi music, including Nazem al-Ghazali, Salima Morad, Muhammed … both Iraqi maqam and the more widespread Egyptian style of tarab music, which he greatly enjoyed. He also studied law for two …
Kumiko Yayama
… Research areas: Arabic music and piyutim. See also: "Home from Japan". … Ethnomusicologist … Kumiko Yayama …
Ya'akov Orland
… Dnieper and Dniester rivers and eventually settled in Bessarabia, living for about a year in Chisinau. While there, … Homeland and Mother, " in 1930. This song was later set to music by David Zehavi, a member of Kibbutz Naan and the … (Mitya) Zeira , who would later set many of his poems to music. One of Orland's most notable songs from this period, …
Yedidyah Admon
… education at the Teacher's Seminary in Jerusalem under musicologist Abraham Zvi Idelsohn . From 1923 to 1927 Admon studied Music Theory and Composition in the United States. Upon his … His unique style combined elements from Yemenite, Persian, Arab, and Hassidic music as well as Biblical cantillation. …
Nahum Nardi
… he studied at the Warsaw Conservatory and at the Vienna Music Academy, graduating in 1922. Following his graduation, … work in collecting melodies and songs from the local Arab residents of Palestine and from Jewish communities from … Li Gan , and Ben Nahar Prat , are examples of melodies with Arabic origins. Nardi developed a unique style of piano …
Mordekhai Hershman
… 1920. The enthusiastic superlatives of his figure are comparable to those showered on the greatest starts of the opera … El Temple, he continued to appear in concerts of classical music, record commercial records and tour throughout … the porous line separating secular from the religious musical practices led by great cantors of the time such as …
Asher Shimon Mizrahi
… community took notice of Asher Mizrahi’s pleasant voice and musical talents, and he began to earn money working as a … the Muslim community in Tunisia and composed many songs in Arabic. In 1919, with the conclusion of WWI and the release … performed in Jerusalem . He was known and admired even by Arabs in their cities and in small towns, and for the women …
David Abikzer
… in Casablanca, Morocco, and it was there that he began his musical education. His vocal talent was evident from a young … the United States, he also graduated from the US School of Music. Abikzer's unique position at Cedarhurst is a … songs and liturgical repertoire in Hebrew, Ladino, and Arabic. This includes albums such as ' Songs of the …