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Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… I use this expression to highlight its centrality to this article as well as to anticipate my focus on the record’s … and poetic texts with melodies from pre-existing popular songs, a practice with roots in the sixteenth century that … who was Rafoul Tabbach? The Biography of a Recording This article is the initial result of my attempts to answer these …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… structure [that] gives it the stamp of the common European song.” Melody emerges in this case from the poetic form and … 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 …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… 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 … recorded items (each one comprising several units, such as songs and dialogues), which, although already digitized and …
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 … 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
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis … 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 … identity. In fact, they comprise a refrain dividing the song into “strophes,” a peculiar feature discussed widely in … the liturgist who set this passage noticed that verse 15 departed too much from the pattern of the other three verses, …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… show, among many other matters, that widely popular songs from the turn of the 20th century are absent from late … 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: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… obsessed with copyrights, refused permissions to third parties even to cite a few words from his lyrics. As a … rehash of the legends by Michael Freedland (1974) the songwriter’s major biographies had to wait for his death. … songs on the radio. But a little research on my own part, asking friends and acquaintances around the world (120 …
Maoz Tzur: The Mystifying Wandering of a Hanukkah Anthem
… This Song of the Month for Hanukkah, in video lecture format, … presented by Prof. Edwin Seroussi on December 13, 2020 as part of a American Friends of the Hebrew University program, …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… 25 … 41041 … Back in 2008 we dedicated our Song of the Month to the popular piyyut “Purim, Purim, Purim … for us”) by Yosef Shalom Gallego. Born in Saloniki (then part of the Ottoman Empire) in the last third of the … style of religious Hebrew song, which had developed starting in the sixteenth century in the Ottoman Empire. …