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Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in German
… Hatikvah contented for that spot in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Today these songs are only … wo die Zeder was one of those celebrated and widespread early Zionist anthems, as it emerges from the historical … on the basis of German aesthetics, in this case poetic and musical. Dort wo die Zeder also shows how the Zionist …
This is How We Build Musical Instruments Made of Plants
… the Land of Israel … Homemade Instruments … Instructional … Early Israel … This is How We Build Musical Instruments Made of Plants …
Coplas - Complas
… A unique genre in the Sephardic Jews musical tradition.. Strophic poems, with various but very … Coplas are sung with a strophic melody, which shows clearly the influence of the sorrounding musical cultures. Many coplas were published (in Saloniki, …
Yippee
… to travel to Uman in the Ukraine in order to document the yearly Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage of tens of thousands of … fallback of the film is the lack of documentation of the music and prayers which accompany the festive holiday. In … scene is mostly lost because of the use of extra-diegetic music that almost completely covers the prayers. Towards the …
The Israeli Mediterranean Style
… selected versions of European Mediterranean styles in art music that Jewish composers—the founders of Israeli music, … 1930s throughout the 1940s, then in Israel mostly until the early 1950s, denoting an emerging national identity through … our discussion to Israeli art music composed through the early 1950s, this entry will focus on the original concept. …
Atah Ehad
… The classification of traditional Ashkenazi melodies into clearly defined genres is a difficult, perhaps impossible … see below. Although Idelsohn can be credited as the first musician to introduce this melody to the Zionist repertory … the melody, the song was not performed in this form even as early as 1935 (as can be seen in score no. 2). In addition, …
Had Gadya
… gallery of modern Jewish and non-Jewish scholars since the early nineteenth-century, starting with Leopold Zunz. … the modern fate of the song with in contemporary Israeli musical repertoire. H ad Gadya was incorporated to the … prior to its earliest appearance in print, perhaps as early as the fifteenth century. Detail from Yiddish …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… gallery of modern Jewish and non-Jewish scholars since the early nineteenth-century, starting with Leopold Zunz. … the modern fate of the song with in contemporary Israeli musical repertoire. H ad Gadya was incorporated to the … prior to its earliest appearance in print, perhaps as early as the fifteenth century. Detail from Yiddish …
In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… of the Month is “In Zaltsikn Yam” (In the Salty Sea), an early-twentieth-century Yiddish workers' song [See also Song … Lithuanian, and Polish Jewish labor Bund). This song clearly reflects the dominating ideology of the Bund, a strong … of Russian Jewish political life.” (4) There are two main musical arrangements to the song. The first is a monophonic …
Shir hama’alot - The umbilical cord between liturgical and domestic soundspheres in Ashkenazi culture
… Singing Shir hama’alot to the typical melodies of the yearly cycle was a widespread musical custom of German-speaking Jews. [2] In many ways … emphasized how the domestic and public spheres shared a musical repertory. By the second half of the twentieth …