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Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, … The recording is from online resources associated with the “History of the American Cantorate” project (Slobin 1984–86). …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Debbie Friedman, the Composer Deborah Lynn Friedman (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an … The Lion King (1994). These films were milestones in the history of popular music in feature animated films. Alan …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew … Yiẓḥak , or ‘Akedah ) has assumed an important function in Jewish religion and culture since Antiquity. This renowned … This question touches upon an important matter – the history of Jewish worship – which seems to have changed over …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov, a young American PhD student in … came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From 1979 to 1981 Warkov worked … who maintained a living connection to the tradition. History, however, proved her wrong. Starting in the 1990s, …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… in a car, driving on a mountain road that winds down along the Lebanese coastline, overlooking the Mediterranean … With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone is the … made my way up to AMAR to search for historical records of Jewish musicians from Aleppo, the city which, for a long …
Stefanie Mockert
… from Humboldt University, Berlin, is a researcher at the Hebrew University's Jewish Music Research Centré. Her studies focus on the … perspective inspired by philosophical aesthetics, social history, and critical theory. Mockert has been involved in …
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 . … life work. The survey also includes a brief general history of folk song ethnography in Eastern Europe, and of …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in … came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From 1979 to 1981 Warkov worked … who maintained a living connection to the tradition. History, however, proved her wrong. Starting in the 1990s, …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… I spent the summer of 1989 living in a Nazareth Illit (today Nof … volunteer in Meseret , a center that supported traditional Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and … the qessim ’s authority. … Questions about the origins, history and (pre-halakhic) Judaism of Beta Israel had also …
Curt Sachs
… Born in Berlin, Sachs studied piano, music theory and composition as a youth in that city. He began a … founders of modern organology (the study of the nature and history of musical instruments), he collaborated with Erich … can be accessed online. Sachs Curt. World History of the Dance , (Ed. 1963). Biographies: Brown Hoard Mayer. 'Sachs, …