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El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… Fire of Saloniki), also known as La cantiga del fuego (The Song of the Fire) and, after its opening line, Día de … fire. Today, the upscale Electra Palace hotel sits in the heart of the city where another Jewish school, the Alliance … of the lyrics within a summary of the fire: “The fire started in a quarter named Agua Muev a and expanded through …
Bernardo Feuer
… was born on May 1 st , 1910 in Lemberg [Lviv], a city then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire but now in Ukraine. He … Kalmele Weitz, Oscar Haller, Aaron Gutman, and Leibele Schwartz. The Hazormir choir repertoire was not exclusively … synagogue material and included arrangements of Jewish folk songs, choral parts of operas in the original language or …

La musique juive dans l’Espagne médiévale
… 1492, doit être considerée comme une benediction pour 1'art musical péninsulaire. L'histoire et l'épigraphie nous … à mesure que le temps passait, de nombreux éléments de l'art indigène espagnol. Il est d'ailleurs intéressant de … 23131 … Jewish music … Medieval … Spain … Medieval Spain … Song … Sephardic Jewish people … Sephardic history … La …

The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
… The aspect of cantorial music here considered forms part of the solo performed by the precentor or Cantor in the … century onwards. Even before that period cantorial art is known to have acquired a certain individualism and … in a very specific style. The category of synagogue song we shall illustrate and analyse may be called a …

The Music of Kurdistan Jews - a Synopsis of their Musical Styles
… continuity of national schools of thought in sciences or arts. Its more recent political history has demonstrated the … that many aspects of their expression in speaking as in song preserve some remnants of an early pre-Christian style; …

Musical Tradition and its Transmitters between Synagogue and Church
… with two tasks: (1) to examine the concept of 'national folksong' and its applicability in the instance of the musical … whose ideas may be 'in the air' of a period forming part of the Zeitgeist and its forces, the melodies, rhythms … not 'in the air;' if anything, they are perhaps 'in the earth,' but that is another matter. They constitute part of …

An Institute of Jewish Music in Jerusalem
… music that are dispersed through all the corners of the earth! Who amongst you senses the sanctity of his people's … to hear in the singing of the Jews today the echo of the song of Moses the Man of God, the psalms of David the King …

Persistence and Transformation of a Sephardi - Penitential Hymn under Changing Environmental Conditions
… number of variants of a folk melody was undertaken by Bela Bartok at the beginning of the century, and continued by his … from sixty divergent versions of the same song. … 9433 … Sephardi … Sephardic Jewish people … …

Numerical Representation of Variants of Orally Transmitted Tunes
… identifying and relating the variants of a model-tune is particularly important, when we compare two or more melodies … … Variant … Melodies … Melodic variants … Folk music … Folk songs … Folk tunes … Folklore … Oral tradition … Numerical …

Yemenite Qasīd Songs (Hebrew)
… other types in content and in language. The poems are folk songs, light, entertaining, and amusing in content. They are … content and music. The qasid were sung at the end of parties, once the serious part of the affair was over and the Rabbis and honoured …