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The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… (1908-1992) is considered one of the founders of Israeli musicology. She studied piano and musicology in Berlin, … interfacing between multiple musical disciplines, history, comparative musicology and Jewish music, and a … among a new generation of American-born scholars since the early 1950s. Numerous letters that Gerson-Kiwi exchanged …
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 … this date was associated with other catastrophes in Jewish history. In spite of its prominence in Jewish historical memory, this fast day has not generated nearly as much Hebrew poetical creativity as the Ninth of Av, …
Stefanie Mockert
… Mockert, who graduated in Musicology from Humboldt University, Berlin, is a researcher … perspective inspired by philosophical aesthetics, social history, and critical theory. Mockert has been involved in … in which framework she contributed a study on the early modern community in Munich “Musical Transformation of …
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 is the … Odeh ” (Every day I am grateful), which was released in the early 1920s by the Lebanese record label Baidaphon, the …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… modestly titled “Unsere erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , … Driven by a nationalist-oriented agenda to constitute a history of Jewish music in Europe which would resonate with … which he finished upon his return to Israel in the early 1960s. This thesis was submitted to the Sorbonne and …
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 its history of Hebrew printing presses and trade; and the …
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, …
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 … century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records … This question touches upon an important matter – the history of Jewish worship – which seems to have changed over …
The Music of Kurdistan Jews - a Synopsis of their Musical Styles
… of thought in sciences or arts. Its more recent political history has demonstrated the inevitable results of … including a strong tendency towards linguistic as well as musical dialect formation. It is only natural that the … in speaking as in song preserve some remnants of an early pre-Christian style; in other words, here we seem to …
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 …