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Moritz Rosenhaupt
… major codifiers of the South German synagogue liturgy in musical notation and yet his name does not appear … in The Chronicle (vol. 58, 1999) of the Klau Library of the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati announces the following: … missing. Writings by Rosenhaupt Rosenhaupt translated Hebrew prayers to German and also compiled manuals for the …
David Berger
… the Jewish Theological Seminary before continuing on to the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music for cantorial school where he received cantorial … studied at the Melton Centre for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the Fellowship for …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… The text draws from poetic formulae common in early Zionist Hebrew poetry. In Zionist songbooks and collections from the … and are only known to experts in the history of modern Hebrew song. Na’aleh L’artzeinu is only dimly remembered by … example of an old Yiddish melody that was reclaimed by Hebrewists in Europe or Palestine. Further exploration has …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… ever since the day of the Renaissance Humanists. [1] The Hebrew chanting depends on the text, and is determined by … and below each word. However, the chant also has clear musical features, with a variety of scales, motives, … which are given above or below each word in a printed Hebrew Bible, serve three functions: they indicate the …
Assaf Shelleg
… Musicologist and pianist Assaf Shelleg is senior lecturer of musicology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was previously the … cultural chain reactions this dislocation catalyzed in Hebrew culture through the 1970, the …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… Yemen Shofet kol ha’aretz belongs to the medieval poetic Hebrew genre called pizmon that is characterized by a … of the opening stanza, is the refrain (the same words and music are repeated) and x, the last line of the rest of the … the present-day availability of medieval manuscripts of Hebrew liturgical orders allow for a fundamental revision of …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… role in dramatically shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. … Friedman’s compositional corpus includes music for the Hebrew liturgy, English translations and interpretations of … octave leap at the opening of a melody—appears in modern Hebrew compositions in which the singing subject appeals …
Avi Bar-Eitan
… researcher, and lecturer. He received his Ph.D. in musicology at the Hebrew University, and his M.A. and M.Mus degrees and Artist’s Diploma from the Hebrew University and the Jerusalem Academy of Music and …
Tanya Sermer
… Dr. Tanya Sermer is a Lady Davis Post-Doctoral Fellow in musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her B.Mus. from … McGill University in piano performance and her Ph.D. in musicology and ethnomusicology at the Eastman School of …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a … Ashkenazi communities, a paraphrase in Yiddish followed the Hebrew text phrase by phrase, a common learning technique in … W. Binder, Seder Melodies: The Hagaddah Set to Music: in Hebrew and English for the Religious School, Congregational …