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Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent … that Chetrit transcribed for his research on Judeo-Arabic poetry from Morocco. For now, Silver comments, only … remained constant, and it is his allegiance to Maghrebi Arabic, with a Meknesi accent, as the main language of …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… 1967, 204). The Melody Known as Niggun ‘Akedah An inseparable part of the stanzaic structure of the ‘Akedah … century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records … melody and detailed annotations, including a list of comparable notated sources and a comprehensive liturgical and …

Fragment hébraïque d’un traité attribué a Marchetto de Padoue
… texte d'un recueil de trois textes hébraïques de théorie musicale conservés dans le Ms. Hébreu 1037 de la … publié ici – une traduction hébraïque anonyme du traité arabe de musique d'Abi'l Salt (1068-1134), don’t la … … Manuscripts … Manuscript … Hebrew manuscript … Treatise … Music Treatise … Music theory … Fragment hébraïque d’un …

The Meaning of the Modal Framework in the Singing of Religious Hymns by Christian Arabs in Israel
… we mean the accepted framework in which a certain musical repertoire is organized, as for instance, the Maqamat in Arab music or the Raga in Indian. Modal frameworks are … … 23134 … Modes … Modality … Modal system … Christian Arab … Israel … Religious music … Hymns … Singing … The …

The Hebrew Version of Abû l-Salt’s Treatise on Music
… has failed to add substantially to our knowledge of the Arab author Abu l-Salt (1067-1134) or of his works, which include a treatise on the science of music. The information available continues to be based mainly on the records of the old Arab biographers and bibliographers. Thus H.G. Farmer only …
Robert Lachmann: His Achievement and His Legacy
… Two memorable anniversaries in the history of Ethnomusicology occurred in 1972: the ninetieth return of the … and means, both scholars became the founders of Comparative Musicology in Israel for both the Jewish and the Arab cultures. The following lines are dedicated to the …

Melody and Poetry in the “Kuzari” (Hebrew)
… between melody and textual metre in two kinds of vocal music. The precise meaning of this passage has long been … does Judah Ibn Tibbon's mediaeval Hebrew translation of the Arabic original resolve the difficulties. The context is a comparison of the Hebrew and Arabic languages. After discussing the uses of the various …

Collectanea Concerning Music in the Hebrew Manuscript London, British Library, Or. 10878 (Hebrew)
… Three fragments of musical theory and of speculations on music, collected by an … vol. IX2. A. Hebrew version of a fragment from the Judeo-Arabic commentary by Dunash ibn Tamim (10th century) on the … probably the earliest mention of music in mediaeval Judeo-Arabic literature dealing with the classification of …

The Hallelôt in the Yemenite Dīwān (Hebrew)
… been examined as a poetic genre, a fact that hampers the musicologists. A preliminary listing is given, of printed … seems tolerably representative, all together 289 items. The musical analysis is based on 97 hallel ô t recorded over … unknown; the language is Hebrew, rarely Aramaic, but never Arabic. It should be noted that they appear already in the …

Yemenite Qasīd Songs (Hebrew)
… and amusing in content. They are written in spoken Arabic so that the simpler people and the women, who did not … and they provided entertainment through their content and music. The qasid were sung at the end of parties, once the … published here, with Hebrew translation and apparatus. The musical treatment of the same qasid , performed by Zecharia …