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Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… focused especially on takasim —the improvisational non-metered solo section which opens a composed piece or bridges …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… his), and diverse new populations are reinventing the parameters and dynamics of Yiddish music …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… creates a sonic tapestry that moves between fast non-metered mumbling on a single recitation tone to clear-cut florid melodies with fixed meter with various permutations of melodic and rhythmic … of a weekly evening prayer shows some analytical parameters designed to interpret the structure and aesthetics of …
Jeff Klepper
Jeff Klepper is an American Jewish Cantor, and one of the pioneers of the singer-…
Nitzan Hen Razael
Nitzan-Chen Razael grew up in Jerusalem in a musical family. His grandfather was a…
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… as a pasté , a pre-composed light song set to a fixed meter, normally appearing as the culmination of a long …
Craig Taubman
Craig Taubman is a singer and composer, known both for his Jewish liturgical music for…
Moshe "Musa" Berlin
Moshe (Musa) berlin is a clarinet player and one of the leading Klezmer musicians in…
El Shokhen Shamayim - A Recorded Pearl of Andalusian Hebrew Music from Algeria Recovered
… five stanzas of three rhyming lines each in the syllabic meter (6+5 syllables per line) characteristic of post-17th …