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My Path to Jewish Music

… and the blacksmith. “Jubal,” the father of all who play the harp and flute. [2] When Joseph’s brothers needed to convey … burst into extensive song, accompanied by Miriam with the “harp.” King David , who ordained that four thousand Levites … to prophesy to King Jehoshaphat, he first called for a harpist. The Bible refers to this: “And it came to pass, …

Kings' Fairy Tale - Mikalojus Ciurlionis

A Fine Reciprocity

… of Cain : Being alone in a forbidding place (wilderness); harp and accompanying strings 4. Attributed to Thomas … poetic fragment The Wanderings of Cain . The use of the harp, along with the predominant style of vocal writing, … 2007. Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems. New York: HarperCollins. Benjamin, Walter. 1969. Illuminations , …

Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie

[E-erokh nivi. Mi-kehilah]. (Berit-milah)

… [E-erokh nivi. Mi-kehilah]. (Berit-milah) [I will raise my harp. From the community]. (Circumcision ceremony). …

Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography

… Ethiopian musical instruments including the krar (harp) , masinqo (one stringed fiddle), washint (flute) and …

Jubal in the Middle Ages

… science. Jubal, 'the father of them that play upon the harp and the organ,' steps out of ancient, antediluvial …

The Ala-Instrument: its Identification and Role

… For example, Anglo-Saxon hearpe , from which the word “harp” is derived, originally denoted a Teutonic lyre (De …

The Biblical NEBEL

… 27 times in the Bible, is generally supposed to have been a harp , and probably of the upper-chested type (i.e. with the … did not necessarily prove the ne b el to have been a harp, if one did not assume a priori that they ought to do … for the Syro-Palestinian area showed no representation of harps before the Hellenistic period; those that then …