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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 … which, having its roots in Egypt, saw the revival of classical musical forms and genres such as the qa ṣ ida , … century. Both factors helped to perpetuate and shape a “classical”, transregional (albeit heavily …
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 … Such remarks provide little information concerning the music itself, yet they offer valuable insights for the … trait, especially in pre-modern times. Indeed, even in classical European music, for example, one of the saddest …
Jubal in the Middle Ages
… Mediaeval treatises on music usually begin with a series of stereotype … answers, very often in the following order: (1) Quid sit musica ; (2) unde dicetur ; (3) a quibus sit inventa . The … sound relations in numerical proportions, represents the classical view on the beginnings of musical science. Jubal, …
Courtney Blue
… born and raised in Seattle, Washington, singing Jazz and Classical music from a young age. She continued to study voice at Wheaton College, receiving her BA in Music and English Literature, where she began to develop a …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… role in dramatically shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. … career began in the 1960s, developing out of the folk music and communal singing tradition of Jewish summer camps. … in rock music, as opposed to its relatively rare usage in classical music. [11] We do not claim that Friedman’s song …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… and below each word. However, the chant also has clear musical features, with a variety of scales, motives, … In the present paper, I will provide a new perspective on musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern … theorists continue to explore genres outside of the Western classical canon (see Tenzer 2006, Tenzer and Roeder 2011, …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… legislative design. Because of the “folk” origins of its music and the re-writing of Naftali Herz Imber’s poem … circumstances in which Imber’s poem was shaped and the musical contrafactum (adaption of a preexisting melody to a … phrase of Hatikvah in the canonic repertoire of Western classical music is, as widely disseminated, the first main …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk Music, the composer Solomon Rosowsky published a short … university-level students in the late Russian Empire was a musician at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. [3] While the … in the early years of the Soviet regime. Even the place of classical music in Soviet Russian culture became a highly …
The Israeli Mediterranean Style
… selected versions of European Mediterranean styles in art music that Jewish composers—the founders of Israeli music, among them the Israeli Five: Paul (Frankenburger) … violist, musician, and composer; Marc Lavry , whose light-classical Mediterranean style captured audiences; and …
Andalusian Nuba
… of the Nuba, which is considered the pinnacle of Andalusian music, from its origins in 9 th century Spain, its arrival … in Al Andalus (Muslim Spain). This school was based on the classical Arabic music of Bagdad mixed with other traditions … performance, although without any clear rules rooted in classical theory. Additionally, because parts of Nubat that …