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Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… of 'play song” or singing game commonly performed among the Jewish communities of central and southern Yemen. It is sung … of folklore deal with the question of how carriers of folk culture remember texts that are transmitted orally. … two stanzas) with each line consisting of two hemistiches. Musically, each textual line is accompanied by a melodic …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… and European Zionism, mid-century Yiddish secular culture, the contemporary klezmer scene, and even into … rest serve as archival records of an earlier time and its musical repertoire. The songs are all notated with piano … in such a ready-to-use manner, easily accessible to all musically literate people regardless of Hebrew knowledge. …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, … and below each word. However, the chant also has clear musical features, with a variety of scales, motives, … cantillation has co-existed with tonality in European culture since 1600. Ne’eman observes that melodic variants …
Assaf Shelleg
… Schusterman Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology and Jewish Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at … in the Jewish, Islamic & Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department at Washington University in St. … devices constituted composers’ perceptions of Jewish musical traditions as much …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… we can reconstruct with a certain degree of accuracy how Jewish liturgical practices evolved prior to the invention … sung preceding and during the High Holidays. Ashkenazi musical traditions of Shofet kol ha'aretz Our previous … against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon comprises …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a … with liturgical ones (blessings, prayers and psalms). The musical repertoire for the performance of the Haggadah ’s … new tunes, composed in the spirit of the new Hebrew musical culture, had a lively metric character calling for …
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 … from Spain and Portugal in 1492 carried their Judeo-Spanish culture with them as they migrated, including literary traditions, musical forms and the Judeo-Spanish language, Ladino. The …
Bernardo Feuer
… exclusively synagogue material and included arrangements of Jewish folk songs, choral parts of operas in the original … a Jewish folk choir with the aim of spreading Jewish culture through the preservation and transmission of their … participated both in Jewish community events and in Chilean musical festivals, such as the International Choral and …
Between Tradition and Modernity
… times as well as of the entire Southern German liturgical Jewish tradition round out the 470 pages of this book, … book: “Maier Levi bequeathed to posterity a manuscript of musical scores, a ‘cantorial compendium,’ that must be … Office), Dr. Georg Woetzer (Head of the Friends of Jewish Culture in Esslingen and organizer of the event) and Prof. …
The Music of Kurdistan Jews - a Synopsis of their Musical Styles
… 9480 … Kurdistan … Kurdistan Jews … Jews … Kurds … Culture … Musical traditions … Jewish cultural groups … Musical styles … The Music of …