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El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… destructive in scale, the fire came as a great blow to the Jewish community living in Saloniki at the time. The fire … with them as they migrated, including literary traditions, musical forms and the Judeo-Spanish language, Ladino. The … from 1992 in Madrid, found at the NLI, which includes instrumental accompaniment. The song is also listed as, “Dia …
Three Musical Ceremonies for Hôšanā Rabbah in the Jewish Community of Casale Monferrato (1732, 1733, 1735) (Hebrew)
… ' … Our main source of information as regards the musical events at the Jewish community of Casale Monferrato during the years … . Each ceremony contained two parts; part A: a series of instrumental and liturgical pieces, and part B: a cantata or …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent … and died on April 30, 2020. He came, as do many Moroccan Jewish performing artists and composers, from a family of … , an improvised, embellished opening featuring alternating instrumental and vocal phrases without fixed beat, leading …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… modestly titled “Unsere erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , … Arguing against writers who maintained that the music of Jewish communities can be reduced to a common source, … celebrated), these artistic pieces for solo or choir with instrumental accompaniment where hardly known to the public …
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 … to a dawr and can be divided into several sections: an instrumental prelude, a well-known d u lab in maqam hijaz on …
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 … a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector … Yiddish song sung by a Latvian interlocutor, and no. 7, an instrumental “Jewish dance” by a Latvian performer, are …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From 1979 to 1981 Warkov worked … an eminent scholar of music in the Islamic world and of the Jewish musical traditions within it. Warkov wanted to study …
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 …
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 …
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 …