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Judeo-Caribbean Currents
… several conflicting memories converge into a multilayered musical narrative. The small but prominent Jewish community of Curaçao had a notorious role in the … because few items from the Portuguese Jewish music tradition were preserved in the manuscripts. The …
Assessing Abraham Zvi Idelsohn’s Legacy
… Idelsohn’s Legacy: Eighty Years after the Publication of Jewish Music in its Historical Development The year 2009 … the development of Idelsohn’s aesthetic vision of Israeli musical culture during his years in the yishuv and … with its own consistent (if sometimes obscured) musical tradition. While Idelsohn’s treatise was in one sense a …
Ashkenazic and Italian Liturgy
… The Cantillation of the Pentateuch According to the Italian Tradition of Turin Knowledge of the musical traditions of the Jews in Italy, who followed a … also presents a feature that is altogether unique in the Jewish world, since the melodic rendition of the t’amim is …
Musical structure and "expressive motion" in East-Ashkenazi liturgical chant
… The Fifteenth World Congress Of Jewish Studies Jerusalem Session: Ashkenazi traditions: the Synagogue and Beyond, 3.8.09 Chair: Amalia … Summary: This paper will focus on the connection between musical structure and 'expressive motion' in East- Ashkenazi …
Contemporary American Jewish Music
… Contemporary American Jewish Music Chair: Ruth HaCohen Joel E. Rubin, Department … as Americans, Jews and musicians in a landscape of multi-musicality. In its initial phase, the repertoire and style … is in a poplar musical style and can include markers of “traditional” musical elements including vocables and …
Bloch: Known and Unknown
… was an outcome of a complex response to Wagnerian racial-musical theory via the intermediary of Houston Stuart … relationship to Wagner, in that his expression of the ‘Jewish soul’ and use of Jewish traditional elements, both refutes Wagner’s denial of Jewish …
Jewish Identities and Ideologies in Music
… Jewish Identities and Ideologies in Music Chair: Boaz Tarsi … on giving equal priority to the neighbouring non-Jewish traditions resonated with Magnes’s fervent belief in both … her recording projects aimed at documenting the incomers’ musical traditions. In this paper I consider how successive …
Judeo-Spanish Traditions in Transition
… Judeo-Spanish Traditions in Transition (Shared session with the Ladino … Program) Chair: Karen Gerson Sarhon Susana Weich-Shahak, Jewish Music Research Centre, Hebrew University of Jerusalem … Crypto or former Crypto-now-open Jews, and how their musical life does and does not conform to often romantic …
The Singing of Zemiroth Shabbath among Religious-Zionist Ashkenazim in Israel
… The Fifteenth World Congress Of Jewish Studies Jerusalem Session: Ashkenazi traditions: the Synagogue and Beyond, 3.8.09 Chair: Amalia … is influenced by communal social change and a universal musical upheaval. … 15 … Jerusalem … … 2009 … Naomi …
Gesture, Dance and Melody in Traditional Ashkenazi Culture
… The Fifteenth World Congress Of Jewish Studies Jerusalem Session: Ashkenazi traditions: the Synagogue and Beyond, 3.8.09 Chair: Amalia … expressive dance movement can be correlated to a number of musical parameters involving melodic density, rhythmic …