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Assaf Shelleg
… Schusterman Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology and Jewish Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at … previously taught as the visiting Efroymson Scholar in the Jewish, Islamic & Near Eastern Languages and Cultures … in Hebrew culture through the 1970, the book maps composers’ gradual disillusionment with romanticist …
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 … and supplication. [3] Settings of Shema’ Koleinu by other composers The combination of the moving words and the …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… wars and vicissitudes in Spain that greatly affected the Jewish communities there. In 1140 Ibn Ezra immigrated to … poetry, research on Hebrew grammar, writings concerning Jewish thought (including philosophy and various scientific … piyyut has been set to new tunes by contemporary Israeli composers. The Ottoman/Iraqi Tradition A. Z. Idelsohn …
Heinrich Schalit and Paul Ben-Haim in Munich
… to an abrupt halt an important development in the field of Jewish music in Munich, especially with regard to the … Ben-Haim. A study of musical developments in the Munich Jewish community of the 1920's may provide some indication … to Israel. … 9505 … Heinrich Schalit … Paul Ben-Haim … Composers … Jewish composers … Munich … Germany … Nazi …
Felix Mendelssohn - Gustav Mahler: Two Borderline Cases of German-Jewish Assimilation
… essay intends to examine two individual cases of the German-Jewish symbiosis, two borderline cases of attempted … … Mendelssohn … Mahler, Gustav … Mahler … German Jews … Jewish composers … Assimilation … Austria … Germany … Felix …
Yemenite Qasīd Songs (Hebrew)
… Besides the types of Jewish poetry in Yemen - nasid, sirah, zaffeh, haduyo and … a rich repertoire forgotten with the passage of time. The composers of these songs were mostly gifted folk poets. The subjects are amusing tales from the Jewish lore, such as the Creation, Adam and Eve in the …
Salamone Rossi as a Composer of "Hebrew" Music
… practically only collection of religious works by a Jewish composer of art music. They were written for various … Rossi … Rossi, Salamone, 1570?-ca. 1630 … Composer … Jewish composers … Art Music … Seventeenth (17th) Century … …
Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… Adler has shown in a lifetime of work, the history of Jewish music is really a set of complex, interlocking … set of source materials to create a portrait of a given Jewish community and time in terms of its musical life. One … to document a soon-to-vanish world, filmmakers and film composers deployed a number of myths, strategies, and …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… a rich field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, when new forms of expressing Jewishness through music challenged the normative status of … the ocean back to the lands from where the poets and composers who composed them had immigrated. Against the …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the … and died on April 30, 2020. He came, as do many Moroccan Jewish performing artists and composers, from a family of musicians going back at least to …