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«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk Music, the composer Solomon Rosowsky published a short … in the early years of the Soviet regime. Even the place of classical music in Soviet Russian culture became a highly … Right to Left? Avraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Invention of Israeli Music,” Jewish Quarterly Review 100:3 (Summer 2010), …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… legislative design. Because of the “folk” origins of its music and the re-writing of Naftali Herz Imber’s poem … Interdisciplinary Journey into the National Anthem by the Israeli pianist and music appreciation expert Astrith … phrase of Hatikvah in the canonic repertoire of Western classical music is, as widely disseminated, the first main …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… and below each word. However, the chant also has clear musical features, with a variety of scales, motives, … theorists continue to explore genres outside of the Western classical canon (see Tenzer 2006, Tenzer and Roeder 2011, … ending with F going down to C does not seem to be common in Israeli Ashkenazi communities; see Ne’eman 2012, 73. The …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records … trait, especially in pre-modern times. Indeed, even in classical European music, for example, one of the saddest … (Hebrew) Geshuri, Meir Shimon, ed. 1964. Kol Israel: Israeli Traditional Cantorial Anthology; with Compositions …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov, a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of … and marginalized by mainstream (Western-oriented) Israeli culture. Only one Israeli institution— the Israeli … ‘mainstream style’— most commonly referred to today as classical Arabic music, or, following A.J.Racy's book ( 2003 …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone … which, having its roots in Egypt, saw the revival of classical musical forms and genres such as the qa ṣ ida , … essentially immobile and inaccessible to many, especially Israeli Jews; second, the famous record’s copy on my mobile …
Moshe Cordova
… m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our knowledge … The Mafṭirim performed Hebrew poetry set to Turkish classical music on the Sabbaths at the Italian Synagogue in … Italian monarchy. They named their congregation Comunità Israelitico-Straniera di Rito Spagnuolo-Portoghese di …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of … and marginalized by mainstream (Western-oriented) Israeli culture. Only one Israeli institution— the Israeli … ‘mainstream style’— most commonly referred to today as classical Arabic music, or, following A.J. Racy’s (2003) …
Abraham Salman
… the Middle East. Blind from the age of two, he studied music as a child in Baghdad’s school for blind Jewish … maqam to the cosmopolitan Egyptian-styled tarab along with classical Western music repertoire arranged for qanun. He … such projects were his celebrated collaboration with the Israeli rocker Danny Sanderson and the Kaveret Ensemble in …
Hisqil Qassab
… in the twentieth century. He was the title of pioneer of neoclassical singing in Maqam, and he was almost one of the … the Jews were deported from Iraq as a result of the Arab-Israeli conflict, where he continued reading the Maqam and … biographical information See also: Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited by Esther Warkov. …