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Between Tradition and Modernity
… Maier Levi of Esslingen is volume 12 of the JMRC's Yuval Music Series. The new production comprises 179 liturgical … book: “Maier Levi bequeathed to posterity a manuscript of musical scores, a ‘cantorial compendium,’ that must be regarded as one of the …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records … melodies, first on separate music sheets and then in cantorial compendia (Goldberg 2002). We have located in … piyyut Tummat ẓurim and its melody, as it appears in the cantorial compendia of Maier Levi of Esslingen (1818–1874; …
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 … stored in the shelves of the Lebanese Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research (AMAR). Located in the little … grandfather was a ḥazzan and had received part of his cantorial training in Aleppo, a city that continues to …
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 bar in the musicological study of the piyyut . His insights on a … liturgical melodies in the modern era. Gershon Efros in his Cantorial Anthology (vol. V, p. 54) replicates Sulzer’s …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to the scholarly … conceptualization of an endangered “heritage” of solo cantorial music (at times framed within a Jewish national … primordial forms. Second, the enrichment of this “pure” cantorial heritage with new choral music, usually for four …
Hin’ni Haaniyah Mimaas (Here I am, poor in worthy deeds)
… Female-Cantor’s Prayer: Text and Cantorial Recitative by Eliyahu Schleifer Arr. for voice and … Aya Schleifer (piano) From the event “Traditional Music for the Reform Synagogue” At the World Congress of … style of Eastern-European Hazzanut with inlays of cantorial motifs and quotes from folk melodies to underline …
Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs
… Judith R. Cohen and Risto Pekka Pennanen In 2008 the Jewish Music Research Centre released a 4-CD package entitled An … public interest in the role commercial recordings had on musical traditions from the early twentieth century, that … for Jewish Music, with two cassettes: R. Isaac Algazi: Cantorial Compositions, Piyyutim and Judeo-Spanish Songs, …
Kol Nidrei (Gebet am Jom Kipur) – Kol Nidrei (Yom Kippur Prayer)
… approach that challenged established categories in Jewish music research. This concept was already introduced in the … (free in speech) the melody is free and ornamented evoking cantorial singing. Stutschewsky avoided a dissonant … part has explicit articulation indications to imitate the cantorial singing style. Altogether, this number strongly …
Keter
… 2 above ). It shows the influence of 19th century Ashkenazi cantorial music on this hazzan and composer. Upon arrival to New York … it and, in general, not to introduce changes in the local music customs. Not all the sections of this composition are …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… in the Jewish past. A case in point is the scholar and musician Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern … stay at the [house in the] Ethiopia Street, Father opened a cantorial school in our house and many young men came to … books and articles on Jewish music and liturgy, prayers and cantorial music that had not been published in Germany were …