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Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… in collections published elsewhere, but only, it seems, in forms that make its recovery all but impossible today” (pp. … is found in those melodies that actually appear in two forms—Aeolian and altered Phrygian on the same note. A case …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… Menashe Cohen (b. 1925; NLI Y 0278, 17:10). [3] Cohen performs a version of the melody for the Psalm 80 verses that …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… when the normative criterion of race determines who performs jazz “authentically” (Black people) and who performs by imitation and appropriation (white Jews and … a special affinity for African-Americans and their cultural forms due to shared experiences of oppression) and “the …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… accretions that have obscured its pristine primordial forms. Second, the enrichment of this “pure” cantorial … voices a capella (substituting older improvised Ashkenazi forms of choral accompaniment), partially based on … but active in Paris). The “German model” found diverse forms of expression that reflect local aesthetic …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… noticed, of four sections, ABCB, one of the most widespread forms of Hassidic nigunim . [3] Moreover, the peak in the …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… and brother played this song. [10] Tassa currently performs “Fog al-Nakhal” within a retrospective repertoire …
An Ashkenazi version of “Ehad mi yode’a” in…Arabic
… the origins of song (including the varying numbers). He performs the Baghdad version with a tune very similar to David …
El lifne [sic] har Galil (shir hatunah)
… services, but also as part of the Bakkashot. The singer performs the first two verses and then starts the third one but …
13. Los árboles llorosos (CES)
… va ser de mí, / en tierras ajenas / yo me vo murir,” which forms an inseparable part of this song in the modern …
Dance Niggun
… Yair Harel's Middle Eastern style of drumming and singing forms a natural bridge linking what would seem to be two …