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Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… later in her life, became one of the most remarkable folk performers of traditional Sephardic songs within the … . Today many consider “Pesah a la mano” as a traditional folksong, and rightly so. Jagoda first recorded the song in … patterns animate its language, poetical structure and musical setting, as seen below. Purim, Purim Lanu (Ladino …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… from archives around the world offer unique vistas on past musical cultures. These findings show the extent to which repertoires of traditional music have evolved in the century or more since commercial … it for choir, in the spirit of the modernist approach to folk songs characteristic of the twentieth-century Bulgarian …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis … collection . Middleton WI: A-R editions, 2014. Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics makes public a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… such as seli h ot . I have studied in great detail the musical setting of this poem in Sephardic communities, … among various communities, there seems to be an underlying musical structure tying together all the documented versions … fast days in the Jewish liturgical calendar, spiced with folk tales related to these events. When the section in the …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… (1908-1992) is considered one of the founders of Israeli musicology. She studied piano and musicology in Berlin, … in different post-war sub-disciplines of musicology such as folk music research, Cantus-Planus-research, or the study of … four articles in the JMRC journal Yuval : Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition, …
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 … the “Western” melody, i.e. Sulzer’s, is similar to German folk melodies, some documented as early as the fifteenth … is found in many Ashkenazi liturgical melodies and Yiddish folksongs. All in all, this oral version vindicates Wodak’s …
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 … stored in the shelves of the Lebanese Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research (AMAR). Located in the little … how the dabke , one of the region’s most popular folk dances, belonged to the Palestinian national struggle: …
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 … to makam Rast places this version in the realm of Turkish music. Secondly, the title clearly delineates its … of the Sephardic Jews of Tetuan and Morocco ,” Track 09, Folkways Records, 1983. This relatively early recording …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent … one of the most distinguished and long-standing Moroccan musicians in Israel. This short note prepared by JMRC … does not mean what he says.” Oz further defined him as “a folk clown, he sings as he speaks, without censorship.” …
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, … of David Edelstadt from the earliest edition of his songs, Folks Gedikhte , New York, Hebrew Publications Company, … its catchy melody led to its reception and popularity as a “folk” song, at times deprived of any mention of authorship. …