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Moses Beregovski
… from the scroll in synagogue with proper accentuation and cantillation). Beregovski began his formal musical education … on his projected five volume collection and study of Eastern European Jewish folk music. It is unclear exactly what …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… window into the intersections of American, Palestinian and European Zionism, mid-century Yiddish secular culture, the … music of American Reform Judaism and his work on Biblical cantillation, he was also one of the most important early … such a Yiddish song. The modality is reminiscent of Middle-Eastern songs, such as the baladi songs of Syrian and …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, and … on musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern Ashkdnazi tradition, a tradition that developed in … context dependent. [6] Frigyesi’s work focuses on Eastern-European communities from before World War II. Rich …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… that some of its features situate it within medieval European musical culture. Geo-Cultural Provenance All the … rite ( minhag ’Ashkenaz ); we have not discovered any Eastern Ashkenazi ( minhag Polin and minhag Lita ) … and Caspar Amman’s transcriptions of the Torah cantillation motifs at the beginning of the sixteenth …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… by the Lebanese record label Baidaphon, the largest non-European record company active in the Middle East during the … the Nahda period and/or the liturgical practices of Middle Eastern Jews. While everyone from the Jewish side was … Cambridge University Press. Barnea, Ezra. 1997. “Music and Cantillation in the Sephardi Synagogue.” In The Performance …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… symmetric structure [that] gives it the stamp of the common European song.” Melody emerges in this case from the poetic … tonic, is highly reminiscent of the ending phrase in the cantillation of the Book of Lamentations, the biblical book … version of the melody, identified by Avenary as the “Eastern European” one, is quoted from Idelsohn in volume 8 …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… Ukraine includes sixty-seven phono-cylinders with biblical cantillation, prayers and piyyutim (songs of religious … Ottoman Palestine from Jewish singers belonging to Middle Eastern communities living in Jerusalem. Isaac Lurie … bulk of the impressive collection that consists of Eastern European Jewish materials. Yet, these recordings are among …