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The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… is found in the last of a series of five folios with songs for the Seventeenth of Tammuz, all framed by the seli … 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 …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… recorded items (each one comprising several units, such as songs and dialogues), which, although already digitized and … 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, …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… and North African versions in the article entitled “Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardic Melodies … fast days in the Jewish liturgical calendar, spiced with folk tales related to these events. When the section in the …
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 …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… show, among many other matters, that widely popular songs from the turn of the 20th century are absent from late … of the JMRC, Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs from the EMI Archive Trust (1907-1912) , is one of the … it for choir, in the spirit of the modernist approach to folk songs characteristic of the twentieth-century Bulgarian …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… the opening line of one of the most popular modern Ladino songs, “Pesah a la mano,” authored by singer, accordionist, … 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 …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… volume in the Contemporary Jewish Music series, 13 Jewish Folk Tunes, an online world-premiere recording of … scene that includes liturgical, para-liturgical and folk tunes of Eastern European and Babylonian Jewish … Centre … Contemporary Jewish Music … 6 … 2020 … Folk songs … Joachim Stutschewsky … Cello - Violoncello … Klezmer …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… of Jerusalem mourns the passing of Moroccan Jewish folk singer Alicia (Benassayag) Bendayan on Friday, June 11, … life, she treasured within her memory the Judeo-Spanish songs of the North Moroccan Sephardic community, playing a … appeared on commercial recordings, such as the important Folkways release, Ballads, Wedding Songs, and Piyyutim of …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… documentation of Eastern European Jewish music and folklore. The complicated paths of encounter between … , at the time the Librarian and Director of the Archive of Folk Song at the American Folklife Center of the Library of … s containing the musical and textual transcriptions of the songs would become available in Jerusalem. That promise …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… 4). Chapter 6 provides detailed musical analysis of several songs: a solo voice and masinqo performance, a solo voice … context, is also favored over other available choices: a folklorized, depoliticized Ethiopianness or alternatively, … music in Israel occurring in the moment of transition, when folkloric styles played by community members were not only a …