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Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… we are glad to launch the sixth volume in the Contemporary Jewish Music series, 13 Jewish Folk Tunes, an online world-premiere recording of …
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 … a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… (1908-1992) is considered one of the founders of Israeli musicology. She studied piano and musicology in Berlin, … para-liturgical and non-religious music of the non-European Jewish communities whose members relocated to Israel after … in different post-war sub-disciplines of musicology such as folk music research, Cantus-Planus-research, or the study of …
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 Hebrew) for the Seventeenth of Tammuz, a fast day in Jewish tradition marking the breach of Jerusalem’s … the “Western” melody, i.e. Sulzer’s, is similar to German folk melodies, some documented as early as the fifteenth …
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 … made my way up to AMAR to search for historical records of Jewish musicians from Aleppo, the city which, for a long … how the dabke , one of the region’s most popular folk dances, belonged to the Palestinian national struggle: …
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, … of David Edelstadt from the earliest edition of his songs, Folks Gedikhte , New York, Hebrew Publications Company, …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… Yiẓḥak , or ‘Akedah ) has assumed an important function in Jewish religion and culture since Antiquity. This renowned … century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records … the same melody. The melody itself presents a mixture of a folk tune and a psalmodic chant. It is simple, easily …
Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition
… we encounter the fateful question if this kind of music making is at all in the nature of man, and therefore … research. … 9480 … Vocal … Vocal music … Polyphony … Folk music … Instruments … Percussion … Definitions … Monophony … Jewish … Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a … our Song of the Month archive). The singing of serial folksongs added at the end of the seder is a late medieval …
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 … role in dramatically shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. … career began in the 1960s, developing out of the folk music and communal singing tradition of Jewish summer …