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My Path to Jewish Music
… Krein. Dedicated to Joel Engel—the “catalyst” whose early influence ignited Stutschewsky’s commitment to Jewish … achievements. In the study of ancient Jewish culture during biblical times, we frequently encounter references to music. … or a sword—but musical instruments, [4] in addition to the biblical tropes [Neginoth] that are used to this day for …
A Fine Reciprocity
… has its dual fount in the Greek poems of Sappho and in the biblical Song of Songs. And so, for my final example of a … narrative, which really makes it stand out from the rest of biblical literature. PC: Exactly. And in the Hebrew, the … debt. In the poems by Tennyson, Coleridge, and Owen, the influence seems to be indirect; so far, I haven’t found …
Translating Tropes (and Psalmodies): New Sources on Steve Reich’s Ethnographic Imports
… coexisting” (Latour 2005, 108). Reich’s translations of biblical cantillation tropes and Hebrew psalmody into (his) … 15-16, 1986), Reich disclosed that he began studying biblical Hebrew (rather than modern Hebrew) in 1974 to gain … confirms Reich’s 1982 article (“Hebrew Cantillation as an Influence on Composition”; Reich and Hillier 2004, 114) that …
A Flowering Debate: A Judeo-Spanish Song (not just) for Tu BiShvat
… seder see, Huss 2019 ) that nevertheless exerted great influence on modern Sephardic and Oriental Jewish ritual practices. This influence is clearly reflected in the preface to the … last line of the stanza rhymes with the refrain, usually a Biblical verse. In addition the Salonika version ends with a …
Book Review: Music’s Making - The Poetry of Music; The Music of Poetry
… did include. What is omitted, and how do those omissions influence the book’s character and structure? It is the … at Yale, he was a guest in Professor Harold (the Anxiety of Influence) Bloom’s home for tea and academic advice? Or … on the cantillation of the Bible, “Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation, An Interpretive Analysis, by Yonatan …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… along with technological shifts and internal political influences, led to significant and relatively swift changes … significance of tunes ascribed to Tolner: the mutual influences of male and female traditional creativity; … [In Ukrainian]. Malin, Yonatan. 2016. “Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis.” …
Sara Levi-Tanai
… and expressive movements. Her choreography often presented biblical stories, traditional Yemenite dances, and themes of … performance, was considered modern and innovative. Her influence extended beyond Israel's borders. Inbal Dance …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… which he regarded as a corruption stemming from foreign influence (Goldenberg 2004). Karnes quotes Idelsohn on the … set to the melody of the American song. The setting of this Biblical Hebrew verse to this song was documented in the …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… and Yiddish. Many of these texts touch directly upon the biblical story, while others refer to the traumatic memory … is a psalmodic chant to which verses from the biblical Book of Lamentations are sung during the Divine … Hashem ) and the ‘Akedaht Yizhak narrative; as such it influenced later similar texts, especially within the genre …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… the old-fashioned pentatonics with their reminiscences of Biblical chant. The “alternative” Eastern European melody of … on the High Holidays. The use of a prominent motif of Biblical chant as the final cadence of most Shofet versions … in detail, betraying respectively a distinct German or Arab influence, with a corresponding modification of structure. …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… of Hatikvah . Alternatively, scholars have invocated the Biblical ‘Vision of the Dried Bones’ (Ezekiel 37, 11-12) as … Central and Eastern Europe. On the other hand, the “Biblical” thesis speaks more about a desire to ground the … used to ask me to release him from his situation. I used my influence on [Yehoshua] Ossovetzki [1858-1929], the …
Karev Yom
… point of view of poetry, the reliance on verses from the Biblical ‘Song of Songs’ (three songs plus the pseudo-Song … 1958 recording of the duo, Ha-Duda’im, perhaps under the influence of Bikel’s interpretation) Ptsach [!] Bazemer …


