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Four Melodies for Four Questions
… about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a … the character of the texts included in this compilation. As modernity made its inroads into Jewish homes, more metric …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Composer Deborah Lynn Friedman (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an … role in dramatically shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. … cry”—an octave leap at the opening of a melody—appears in modern Hebrew compositions in which the singing subject …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… of the opening stanza, is the refrain (the same words and music are repeated) and x, the last line of the rest of the … we can reconstruct with a certain degree of accuracy how Jewish liturgical practices evolved prior to the invention … Of course his terminology is a bit uncomfortable to post-modern ears. Categories of authentic and ethnic musical …
Assaf Shelleg
… Musicologist Assaf Shelleg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) studies modern and contemporary musics with a particular interest in … about Jews. Shelleg is the author of the award-winning book Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, … and below each word. However, the chant also has clear musical features, with a variety of scales, motives, … in both sections as one of the main sources for the modern musicological use of the term. Dalia Cohen (2006, …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… obscurity and are only known to experts in the history of modern Hebrew song. Na’aleh L’artzeinu is only dimly … culture, the contemporary klezmer scene, and even into modern synagogue liturgical practice. As the first published … his first efforts in what would be a life-long devotion to modern Hebrew song. In 1922 Binder began his position as …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… song, reflecting once again the intricate ways in which Jewish repertoires were constructed by diverse agents in the modern period. One of the recordings of this song that we … section of the Jacob Michael Collection of Jewish Music at the National Sound Archives of the Israel National …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… studying them shows the complex process through which modern favorites in the Jewish repertoire were constructed … Kisselgof and his colleagues attempted to provide modern Jewish families with educational songs for all the … Abraham Goldfaden (right), for many the “founder” of modern Yiddish theatre. Indeed, the melody appears for the …
Vemen vestu zingen, vemen? Leibu Levin Performs in Yiddish
… in southwestern Ukraine). This new production of the Jewish Music Research Centre prepared around the centennial of … … Archival recordings … Bukovina … Historical recordings … Modern Yiddish stage … Non-religious Yiddish music … USSR … …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… It also exemplifies the elusiveness of the symbols of modern nation-states. From the outset, we note that this is … legislative design. Because of the “folk” origins of its music and the re-writing of Naftali Herz Imber’s poem … culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its …