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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 … the South German Jews. On this chant tradition Maier Levi clearly was an outstanding authority. In addition to the …
The Music of Kurdistan Jews - a Synopsis of their Musical Styles
… including a strong tendency towards linguistic as well as musical dialect formation. It is only natural that the musical traditions of Kurdistan Jews should also have been … in speaking as in song preserve some remnants of an early pre-Christian style; in other words, here we seem to …
Musical Tradition and its Transmitters between Synagogue and Church
… folksong' and its applicability in the instance of the musical tradition of the old Synagogue; (2) the attitude of Western music historians to the question of Jewish influence on early Church music. As will be seen, we are convinced that a …
The Influence of Choral Elements on the Formation and Development of the Piyyût Genres (Hebrew)
… in the prayers was minimal. It is excluded by the early Palestinian piyyûtim , which are in continuous-flow … … Piyyutim … Hymns … Choral … Choir … Choirs … Choral music … Jewish music … The Influence of Choral Elements on the Formation …
Eduard Birnbaum - a Bibliography
… scholarly work is well known to every student of Jewish music. I was privileged to belong to the team that … to his article on the Birnbaum collection of Jewish music (see item no. 66 in our bibliography) and Alfred … his pupil Samuel Gutmann who wanted to publish them in the early 1930's. This project, as well as Arno Nadel's project …
Introduction to Idelsohn’s Autobiographical Sketches
… Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati. The retirement, at the early age of fifty-two, came only two years after the … was printed half a year later in Jacob Beiml's Jewish Music Journal (New York). … 9593 … Idelsohn A.Z. … …
A.Z. Idelsohn: A Pioneer in Jewish Ethnomusicology
… of the twentieth century, the study and research of Jewish music was motivated by the belief that the music of biblical times survived in the living traditions of … sacred services and rituals. A new approach concerning the early phases of liturgical music in Christianity, Islam, and …
Persistence and Transformation of a Sephardi - Penitential Hymn under Changing Environmental Conditions
… school. At about the same time, A. Z. Idelsohn made some early steps in the same direction when, in the early twenties, he confronted different local variants of … upon the comparison of tunes influenced by different music cultures. Idelsohn did not content himself with the …
Vom liturgischen Sprechgesang zur autonomen Musiksprache: Stationen der Entwicklung yon abendlandischer Notenschrift und Musikgeschichte
… war der grö ß te Musiker der vorchristlichen Ara. … 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 …