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Bernardo Feuer
… and secondary school in his hometown and was drawn to music from an early age. Feuer learned the basics of music from his … Hazomir. Out of this core group of young amateurs, some early members of Hazomir would eventually become the …
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 … the South German Jews. On this chant tradition Maier Levi clearly was an outstanding authority. In addition to the …
Vom liturgischen Sprechgesang zur autonomen Musiksprache: Stationen der Entwicklung yon abendlandischer Notenschrift und Musikgeschichte
… 23113 … Music history … Europe … Notation … Methodology … Early Music History … Historiography … Documentation … Vom …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… as part of Parashat Vayera’ (Gen. XVIII:1 – XXII:24), early in the annual cycle of weekly portions, and on the … [10] Still, the overwhelming majority of poems clearly indicates that the ideal form for an ‘Akedah piyyut … century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov, a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of … Iraqi music. Most of these musicians moved to Israel in the early 1950s, part of the Jewish exodus from Arab lands, … citizens among its cadre of regular musicians. This was clearly part of the IBA’s cultural policy following Israel’s …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, … the Old to the New World, it is worth stressing that as early as the 1880s, America began exporting Yiddish songs … . and workers sing his songs with tears in their eyes.” As early as 1914, twenty-two years after Edlestadt died, …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent … label at their studio on Raziel Street in Jaffa. These early recording sessions were all “live to tape,” unlike … a hallmark of Moroccan religious devotion, hillulot , the yearly celebrations of the death anniversary of saintly …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… in sections according to the different Turkish makam s (musical modes), titled Shirei Israel be-eretz ha-qedem … as a hub for the wide distribution of our song as early as the first half of the 18th century: Venice, with … region. Below we will highlight only a few. One significant early publication is derived from a collection of Hebrew and …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… modestly titled “Unsere erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , … 1794). Arguing against writers who maintained that the music of Jewish communities can be reduced to a common … which he finished upon his return to Israel in the early 1960s. This thesis was submitted to the Sorbonne and …
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 … Odeh ” (Every day I am grateful), which was released in the early 1920s by the Lebanese record label Baidaphon, the … the Arab-Ottoman world during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. In musical terms, the Nahda is …