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Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… of Arabic music departments in Israeli institutions of high learning, most prominently at the Academy of Music and Dance …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… in the beit midrash study hall at the end of the all-night learning vigil performed on Shavuot eve, known as the tikkun …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… (I did not have to wait for the Coronavirus to use distance learning!) I found the Yiddish song “Piramidn.” The song, …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… 23) describes Sarah’s suffering and sudden death upon learning of her son’s fate. Shalom Spiegel (1967) revealed …
The Training of Hazzanim in Nineteenth-Century Germany
… effect on the basic oral nature of the tradition and the learning process. This oral transmission, from one …
The Liturgy of Beta Israel: Music of the Ethiopian Jewish Prayer
… called kahena t, sing. kahen , from Ge’ez kah ə n ) at a learning institution in Jerusalem, Machon Meir, to …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… and after the seder meal. This text combines elements of a learning session (casuistry of Oral Law passages and other … was performed with diverse techniques of recitation and learning tunes, fitting the character of the texts included … through the dissemination of commercial recordings and learning kits, many of them produced in Israel. The subject …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… disjunctives combined. Thus, for instance, one might begin learning to chant with merkha-tipḥa munaḥ-etnaḥta . But one … and it is a phrase that readers often begin with when learning to chant. (I use the term “phrase” here, as in …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… exile. Additionally, the practice of rising at night for learning and prayer, which is something which characterizes …