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Translating Tropes (and Psalmodies): New Sources on Steve Reich’s Ethnographic Imports
… interview conducted as part of the Oral History of American Music project (December 15-16, 1986), Reich disclosed that … The Cave (1988 and 1990-93, respectively), thereby turning English into the primary source whose logogenic qualities … , and in the original Hebrew) to speech melodies (in English) that stood in for the ethnographic. Reich’s later …
Ruby (Rivka) Daniel
… of Jewtown, Kochi. Well educated in Malayalam, Hebrew and English, she worked for many years as a clerk in government … eventually translating more than 100 of the songs into English. Some of her translations and commentaries were … Birds ) … Singer and translator … 24604 … Cochin … Folk music … Malayalam … translator … Women singing … Ruby …
74. The Fifth of Iyar
… he a member of our caste? [Chorus] 4. When the brutal English left, Who behaved like animals, Our freedom they … 1954, Kerala Jews celebrated Israeli Independence Day with music and flag-raisings on the fifth day of the Hebrew month … “Does he belong to our caste?” Disparagement of the “brutal Englishmen” who behaved “like animals”—in Palestine as well …
32. Prosper, Prosper (Our Bridegroom, Our Bride)
… song exemplifies two widespread genres of Kerala folk music. Part I begins in the style of a “competition song” ( … Hindu religious rituals in Kerala (Aju Narayanan 2006). Our English version is a composite translation of part I, …
Rabbi David Buzaglo
… publication of an extensive new essay, [1] the first one in English, about him, is an opportunity to revive his biography in our website. A musical and rabbinical prodigy since his early days, Rabbi … Buzaglo became a foremost performer of Andalusian Hebrew music in its southern tradition from Marrakesh and …
A Flowering Debate: A Judeo-Spanish Song (not just) for Tu BiShvat
… emerged therefore from a rich multicultural poetic and musical background that can be traced back to the medieval … Mahur in its header (see Figure 2 above ). Evidence of this musical tradition of El debate de las flores is scant. A … form. The Eastern version of El debate de las flores with English translation can be found in a special online project …
Yaakov Huri
… relations dominating the encounters between European ethnomusicologists and their subjects of inquiry in Israel. Our … (from 1952 onwards) sought in Israel for a place where the musical tradition of their ancestors as they knew it was … throughout the West Bank. His command of three languages English, Arabic and Hebrew led him to this job in which he …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… study aims to trace the unique characteristics of a type of music unparalleled in the central-eastern European … Hasidic repertoire.” Although the dominant function of this music was not aesthetic contemplation but rather the … Lukin. Feldman (2016, 236) cites Mark Slobin’s unpublished English translation of Beregovski’s introduction to his …
Splendid Singing Birds: Jewish Women’s Songs from Kerala
… Jerusalem … This playlist is the advanced release of Yuval Music Series 14, Splendid Singing Birds: Jewish Women’s … This is one of the longstanding projects of the Jewish Music Research Centre. Led with diligence, profound … of the parrot next to the title of that song. To read its English translation and commentary, click on the song title …
The Music on Comtat-Venaissin
… Seroussi Note: This article appeared in parallel columns in English, French and German in Musica Hebraica (1-2 [1938]: 18-20), the very short-lived … obviously wrote his piece in French. [1] The translator to English took some noticeable liberties, at times concealing …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… search and mobile viewing. Idelsohn's Hebrew and English biographies, written in the early 1930s, appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one appeared …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… in the Jewish past. A case in point is the scholar and musician Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern … Idelsohn himself left a rather short autobiography in English and Hebrew published towards the end of his life, … in both versions, having in mind the diverse Hebrew and English readerships. Almost totally absent from this text …


