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Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… receiving of the Ten Commandments, and the arrival of the Israelites to the land of Canaan. Geographically, our song … melodic commonalities, unite the sources examined in this article. We will evaluate these common traits and … in sections according to the different Turkish makam s (musical modes), titled Shirei Israel be-eretz ha-qedem …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… collector Eduard Birnbaum of Königsberg published a short article modestly titled “Unsere erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , an insert of the …
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 … I use this expression to highlight its centrality to this article as well as to anticipate my focus on the record’s … essentially immobile and inaccessible to many, especially Israeli Jews; second, the famous record’s copy on my mobile …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, 1970), Hanoch Avenary set a new … In his words, “the symmetrical bars are the musical counterpart of the constant numbers of syllables adhered to in a … in this text. Indeed, as part of his acerbic approach to Israeli musicology in general and to the work of Avenary in …
Nili Belkind
… Dr. Nili Belkind is an ethnomusicologist whose specialty areas include the Middle East … and binary perceptions of Arab/Palestinian and Jewish/Israeli. Nili’s M.A. thesis focused on the musics of prominent Haitian artists who, due to social and political circumstances in …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson Kiwi (1908-1992),” is a joint … (1908-1992) is considered one of the founders of Israeli musicology. She studied piano and musicology in … prevented the publication of her dissertation on the art of the Italian madrigal in 1933, she emigrated to Italy …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… of the Jewish people presented to Professor Haim Beinart on the occasion of his seventieth birthday , ed. Aharon … such as seli h ot . I have studied in great detail the musical setting of this poem in Sephardic communities, … Hebrew Bible contest and in 1964, Hocha went on to win the Israeli Hebrew Bible contest (see above his picture with …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector … from Melngailis’s collection (nos. 65 and 74). Melngailis started collecting Jewish songs in 1899 in Keidan (Lithuania), … publication was planned as a collaboration with the late Israeli musicologist of Latvian origin Joachim Braun (Bar …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… (“customs” or “traditions”) once the printing press started to produce prayer books in rapidly increasing numbers … return to this feature later. Right now, let us move to the musical performance of the three verses. The precious Leo … hazzan Azelio Servi: A quote from the journal Il Vessillo Israelitico LXX/1922 (XIX-XX), 297: PITIGLIANO […] Oltre …
Moshe Cordova
… m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our knowledge … Italian monarchy. They named their congregation Comunità Israelitico-Straniera di Rito Spagnuolo-Portoghese di … the early twentieth century, Jewish singers from various quarters of Istanbul, as well as from various cities of the …