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Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone … I use this expression to highlight its centrality to this article as well as to anticipate my focus on the record’s … who was Rafoul Tabbach? The Biography of a Recording This article is the initial result of my attempts to answer these …
Clara Wenz
… Clara Wenz is an ethnomusicologist specializing in Middle Eastern music, music and sound studies, political … SOAS, 2015-2019 Employment Senior Teaching Fellow, Music Department, SOAS, London, 2018-2019 Education PhD in …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, 1970), Hanoch Avenary set a new … In his words, “the symmetrical bars are the musical counterpart of the constant numbers of syllables adhered to in a … already noticed some shortcomings in this text. Indeed, as part of his acerbic approach to Israeli musicology in general …
Nili Belkind
… Dr. Nili Belkind is an ethnomusicologist whose specialty areas include the Middle East … M.A. thesis focused on the musics of prominent Haitian artists who, due to social and political circumstances in … As an album producer she has most extensively worked with artists from the Spanish and French Caribbean. … …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson Kiwi (1908-1992),” is a joint … prevented the publication of her dissertation on the art of the Italian madrigal in 1933, she emigrated to Italy … reoriented her research focus from the canon of Western art music to non-Western music, most particularly, the music …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… of the Jewish people presented to Professor Haim Beinart on the occasion of his seventieth birthday , ed. Aharon … such as seli h ot . I have studied in great detail the musical setting of this poem in Sephardic communities, … and North African versions in the article entitled “Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector … from Melngailis’s collection (nos. 65 and 74). Melngailis started collecting Jewish songs in 1899 in Keidan (Lithuania), … considered lost, were retrieved by Karnes (apparently only partially, as will be shown below) and are presented to the …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… (“customs” or “traditions”) once the printing press started to produce prayer books in rapidly increasing numbers … the liturgist who set this passage noticed that verse 15 departed too much from the pattern of the other three verses, … return to this feature later. Right now, let us move to the musical performance of the three verses. The precious Leo …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… from archives around the world offer unique vistas on past musical cultures. These findings show the extent to which … Sephardic singers of Salonica. It was still mentioned in an article in the Ladino journal El Mesajero (Salonica, 1939) … such as the transformation of the Turkish “ya yürek” (oh, heart) to “ya Yuri” (Yuri being the name of the groom) and the …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… historical knowledge while assuming a distinction between particular agencies and general historical trajectories. … interest, it also aspires to commemorate a forgotten artist. Justifiably or not, Unger did not gain international … in Unger’s history: Unger decided to “devote his life to music making” after hearing Mahler’s Lied von der Erde ; he …