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Hayrana Laih
… is popular in the Arab world, but also has connections to Jewish musical contexts and musicians. The lyrics of Hayrana Laih … [7] Joel Beinin, “Layla Murad: Popular Culture and the Politics of Ethnoreligious Identity,” in The …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… of digital resources have enhanced the study of the Jewish liturgy helping us to make more accurate assessments … development against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon comprises …
Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… singing other liturgical texts. The melody consists of two musical phrases repeated according to the aaba scheme. … Judeo-Spanish speaking Jews. The old traditional Ottoman Jewish community ruled by rabbinical authority was shattered … modernizing trends characterized by an exposure to Western culture (most particularly French), to liberal trends in …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… development against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon comprises … language like pentatonics, but uses a strongly profiled Jewish prayer mode whose foremost characteristic is a stock …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… (petition) is a religious practice maintained by several Jewish communities. It consists of gatherings that occur … in that the piyyutim are arranged according to the maqamat (musical modes) in use in the court music of the Ottoman … his piyyutim to be sung are borrowed from the musical culture of the Sephardi Jews of Spain (tunes of …

Is Popular Culture Defining Synagogue Music
… As Reform synagogues across the nation reshape their musical styles, debate continues over whether or not the … director of program), both of Kol B'Seder, as well as Jewish composer Michael Isaacson. … 101 … 101 … 3 … 3 … … … … 24 … 1996 … Music … Musicians … America … Reform … Culture … Pop … Cult … Musician … Ashkenazi … David …

Jews and Hungarians in Modern Hungarian Musical Culture
… in contemporary Jewry. IX (1993): Modern Jews and their musical agendas In Hungarian: Journal of the Society of Hungarian Jewish Culture (Sept, 1992), 31-36. In the domain of bourgeois life …

Maramaros: The lost Jewish music of Transylvania
… Maramures (formerly Maramaros, in Hungarian) was a Jewish community in Transylvania that, prior to World War II, had a rich musical heritage. After the Shoah, not a single one of the … Jews. … 51 … 51 … 1 … 3 … The Hungarian Journal of Jewish Culture … The Hungarian Journal of Jewish Culture … 38489 … …

Folk Elements in Cultivated Music (Resume)
… his composition, with a comment on the special character of Jewish music in this context. … 3 … Jewish Music Forum … … … 6 … New York … Society for the Advancement of Jewish Musical Culture … … composer … Composers … 7 … 1946 … Folk music … …

Jewish Liturgical Music in the Wake of Nineteenth-Century Reform
… concludes with an assessment of the attempt to obtain a musical synthesis of two musical cultures, Jewish and European. … 2 … Sacred Sound and Social Change: …