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In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… a rich field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, when new forms of expressing Jewishness through music challenged the normative status of … summer camp, aka Kinder Ring, is indicative of the contexts of performance of “Piramidn.” Although, as Neil Levin …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… associated with the Binding of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew and Yiddish. Many of these texts touch … Yiẓḥak , or ‘Akedah ) has assumed an important function in Jewish religion and culture since Antiquity. This renowned narrative describes how the first Jewish family (Abraham, Sarah and Isaac) came close to …
Melody and Poetry in the “Kuzari” (Hebrew)
… the uses of the various terms in other Arabic and Jewish-Arabic sources, the following interpretation is … the most useful.' … 23135 … Melody … Text-music relations … Texts … Meter … Yehuda Halevy … Hebrew cantillation … Jewish poetry … Poetry … Melody and Poetry in the “Kuzari” …
The Musical Realization of Biblical Cantillation Symbols (te‘amîm) in the Jewish Yemenite Tradition
… by the Yemenites in three different social and religious contexts: (a) the various synagogal services, of which the … and (c) the heder , where the recitation of biblical texts is the basic educational instrument. The Yemenites … of Biblical Cantillation Symbols (te‘amîm) in the Jewish Yemenite Tradition … Uri Sharvit …
The Magical and Theurgic Interpretation of Music in Jewish Sources from the Renaissance to Hassidism (Hebrew)
… Since the end of the 15th century we find a long series of Jewish texts containing a new evaluation of music as a means of power. This attitude emerges among Italian Jewish authors and seems to be influenced by parallel views …
Three Musical Ceremonies for Hôšanā Rabbah in the Jewish Community of Casale Monferrato (1732, 1733, 1735) (Hebrew)
… source of information as regards the musical events at the Jewish community of Casale Monferrato during the years … it then probes into the questions of the authors of the texts, the place of performance and the initiator of the … … Score, Music scores … Cantata … 9426 … Hosha'nah Rabbah … Jewish communities … Manuscripts … Eighteenth (18th) Century …
The Rules of the Oral Transmission of the Mishnah According to the Aleppo Tradition
… governing the oral transmission of the Mishnah, the Jewish Oral Law. This compilation was originally orally … after being fixed in writing, it was read and studied in Jewish communities without the aid of graphic signs such as the accents system used for reading the biblical texts. The vital importance of the Mishnah in the …
Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardi Melodies of Qinot for the Ninth of Av
… of qinot melodies for the Ninth of Av (the date on the Jewish calendar that commemorates the destruction of the … hope for the restitution of the Temple. Most of the texts in this genre included in the Sephardi liturgy were … order of the four fasts.” … 9415 … Sephardi … Sephardic Jewish people … Western Sephardi tradition … Sephardi …
Traces of Jewish Musicians in the Writings of Lomazzo
… The discovery of traces of Jewish musicians in Lomazzo’s Trattato dell’Arte Della … Pittura would no doubt be of interest to historians of Jewish music as well as to art historians in general. … the origin of these traditions since we generally have no texts on which we can depend. For this reason even …
Bernardo Feuer
… exclusively synagogue material and included arrangements of Jewish folk songs, choral parts of operas in the original … During this period Feuer also taught music in different Jewish schools in Buenos Aires, where he also conducted the … which still bears his name. Feuer composed works based on texts by Jewish poets such as Chaim Nachman Bialik, Isaac …