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Josef Tal (Gruenthal)
… generation of composers who principally opposed the use of folklorism and orientalism. This may have reflected his … and Idea : against nationalism in music that is based on folklore, and (implicitly) supporting German hegemony in … 1951 and 1981. Although he did use some local and Mizrahi melodies in his works at a time when that Zeitgeist was at …
Yeruham Blindman
… he composed many arrangements for liturgical music using melodies from Jewish folk songs. … Cantor & composer … Cantorate … Improvisation …
Mikhail Gnesin
… to reorganize the activities of the Society for Jewish Folk Music . Unlike other musicians from the Society, Gnesin … a prolific composer in his own right, making use of Jewish folk melodies as the thematic base for his works. Gnesin …
Jacob Beimel
… of his own compositions and adaptations (synagogue music, folk songs, and Hassidic melodies). … American cantor, composer and musicologist … … New York … Philadelphia … Hazzanut … Cantorate … Journals … Folksong … Musicology … Jacob Beimel …
David Zehavi
… he also began composing. Slowly he began to publish his melodies all over the country and became one of the most … as such he ranks among the founding fathers of the Israeli folk song. In 1927, as a 15-year-old, he composed his first … Singing for: melodies for choir, children's songs, and folk songs. In his later years, he suffered from cancer and …
Dudu Barak
… Dudu Barak is a writer of Israeli folk songs. He was born in Jerusalem in 1948 and grew up in … encounter may be seen in Barak's use of 'Mediterranean' melodies. Some of his songs became idiomatic phrases. Two … and the excess spirit, if it exists, in me.' … "Israeli folk song" lyricist … Dudu Barak …
Abraham Moshe Bernstein
… songs. Published a collection of Eastern European Jewish folk melodies (1927). Two comprehensive biographies covering the …
Lazare Saminsky
… 1908 he became a founding member of the Society for Jewish Folk Music , working as its first secretary. During this … which he collected Biblical cantillations, prayer chants, melodies, and other sacred musical traditions of the … & co-founder of the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music … Lazare Saminsky …
Gideon Klein
… was with Rafael Schachter for whose chorus Klein composed folk songs in Czech, Slovak, Hebrew, and Russian. Since … by a number of varied styles and sources including Moravian folklore, traditional Hebrew melodies, and the work of composers Leos Janacek, Vitezslav …
Max Helfman
… which was modern and original and yet rooted in traditional folk and synagogue melodies. Among his best known works are his Shabbat Kodesh …