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Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… The collection of historical Jewish field recordings at the Vernadsky National Library of … the earliest surviving specimens of Middle Eastern Jewish musical traditions. By nature of the technological … are all of male voices singing solo or in groups without instrumental accompaniment. One puzzling instrumental melody …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… history is complex, revealing a number of interrelated musical and textual settings. Looking into the information … number of different composers, such as the prominent Iraqi-Jewish musician Salah al-Kuwaity (1908-1986), and in some … 1-2.]. His version is also distinct due to its elaborated instrumental introduction performed by a large firqah …
Salim Shibith (Salim Ha-Cohen)
… Arabic literature and poetry to augment his education at a Jewish school in Baghdad. We hear a familiar story: Shibith … of the maqam , wrote Na‘im Twayna in his series on Iraqi musicians in Al-Anba’ newspaper (June 30, 1978). It is … of Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel: Instrumental Improvisation and Culture Change and watch his …
Yitzhak Aviezer
… Former Music Director and Producer for Voice of Israel in Arabic, … (Abu al-'iz) lecturing at Jerusalem Academy . Aviezer's Instrumental composition. (Jerusalem Orchestra East and West) Articles: Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited …
Yaqub Murad al-‘Amari (aka Yaqub Bar-Nay)
… Murad was a multi-instrumentalist employed by the Iraqi Broadcasting Ensemble … occupations out of necessity. Wrote a manuscript on Iraqi music theory but was discouraged by lack of recognition for … at minute 54:47, both recorded by IBA in 1970. Articles: Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… Beregovski, Evreiskie narodnye napevy bez slov [ Jewish Tunes without Words , 1946]: This research was … of its contents in the wider context of Hasidic music research is a desideratum. The present essay, focusing … dancing tune, a testimony of the porosity between vocal and instrumental repertoires of the Eastern European Jewish …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… volunteer in Meseret , a center that supported traditional Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and music. The neighborhood had grown around an absorption center ( merkaz klita ), where new Jewish immigrants are housed, taught Hebrew, supported in …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to the scholarly … aspect of this musical innovation. Third, the use of instrumental music, most particularly the organ was a …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… Jewish Music Collections of the Vernadsky National Library of … has attracted the attention of musicians and scholars of Jewish music ever since they resurfaced in the aftermath of … the Vernadsky recordings,” Sholokhova has also been kindly instrumental in guiding this writer in the intricacies of …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century: The Music of Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras . Syracuse: … Netsky’s Klezmer: Music and Community in Twentieth Century Jewish Philadelphia (2015) and Walter Zev Feldman’s Klezmer: … recorded by people who have become revered as masters of instrumental klezmer music in the 1920s, he embraces the …