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The Mogen Ovos Mode: a Study in Folklore
… Singing the prayer magen avot, the abbreviated repetition of Sabbath-eve … is an old tradition which 'goes back to the third century.' Jewish communities in different parts of the world share the … mode, which, to Idelsohn, is the deepest expression of the Jewish soul, is based on an 'original melodic line of Jewish …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Composer Deborah Lynn Friedman (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an … shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. Friedman’s compositional … worshippers were seeking more accessible, communal modes of prayer. Friedman’s early compositions were designed to be …
Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection (1954-1961)
… notes and texts. Selections of liturgical music of various Jewish communities in Italy, recorded originally by the Italian Jewish ethnomusicologist Leo Levi (1912-1982) from original sources. Contents: prayers, cantillation and hymns for Sabbath, High holidays, …
Contemporary American Jewish Music
… Contemporary American Jewish Music Chair: Ruth HaCohen Joel E. Rubin, Department … Jew means in this time.” Abigail Wood, Joe Loss Lecturer in Jewish Music, Department of Music, SOAS, University of … 5.8.09 … 15 … 34736 … … 2009 … Contemporary American Jewish Music …
Is Israeli Art Music Jewish?
… The Fifteenth World Congress Of Jewish Studies Jerusalem Session: Between Israeli and Jewish in Music, 5.8.09 Chair: Yehoash Hirshberg Summary: … impossibility, or more significantly, futility of defining Jewish music itself—many of the founders of Israeli art …
Musical instruments of the Mountain Jews
Aziatskay garmoshka (lit. 'Asian accordion'; also called 'gar-mon' or 'ghumuz' in Juhuri…
Moshe "Musa" Berlin
… with the clarinet player Giora Feidman and played in varied Jewish events such as weddings but also in religious events in the Jewish denominations and communities. Still, playing in …
Genizah Fragments of Hebrew Hymns and Prayers Set to Music (Early 12th Century)
… This article was originally published in the Journal of Jewish Studies Vol. 16 (1966), p.87-104. … 2 … Encounters of … … Hanoch Avenary … Genizah Fragments of Hebrew Hymns and Prayers Set to Music (Early 12th Century) …
Jeff Klepper
… Jeff Klepper is an American Jewish Cantor, and one of the pioneers of the … camps. At those camps, he started to compose parts of the prayer by himself. Klepper was ordained as a cantor in 1980 … in the HUC campus in New York. He cooperated with a lot of Jewish musicians; His best-known cooperation was with Rabbie …
Between Israeli and Jewish in Music
… Between Israeli and Jewish in Music Chair: Jehoash Hirshberg Olivier Tourny, … Over the past two decades, the Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jewish) Community has immigrated massively to Israel. It is … Israel, as expressed in the construction of large prayer houses in different parts of the country. More …