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Clara Wenz
… Clara Wenz is an ethnomusicologist specializing in Middle Eastern music, music and sound studies, political ethnography, anthropology …
Ben-Zion (Yisrael Noach) Kapov-Kagan
… … Hazzan … Chazzan … Odessa … Cantor … Composer … Synagogue music … New York … Ben-Zion (Yisrael Noach) Kapov-Kagan …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, 1970), Hanoch Avenary set a new bar in the musicological study of the piyyut . His insights on a … texts suggested a comprehensive method for addressing the musical aspects of Hebrew liturgical poetry from an …
Nili Belkind
… the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from Columbia University (2014) and is an ethnomusicologist specializing in the Middle East—with a special … award-winning book (International Council of Traditions of Music and Dance [ICTMD] 2022) Music in Conflict: Palestine, …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… (1908-1992) is considered one of the founders of Israeli musicology. She studied piano and musicology in Berlin, Leipzig, Heidelberg, Freiburg i. Br. … representatives of the Berlin School of Comparative Musicology. Lachmann was also forced to leave Germany in …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… such as seli h ot . I have studied in great detail the musical setting of this poem in Sephardic communities, … among various communities, there seems to be an underlying musical structure tying together all the documented versions … Baghdad, he studied violin at the Alliance School, turning music into a profession, as did many other blind Jewish …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector … A lengthy introduction provides ample historical and musical contexts. Karnes did not spare any effort in trying … Melngailis documented in extant publications of Jewish music, especially in anthologies of Yiddish songs, the most …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… return to this feature later. Right now, let us move to the musical performance of the three verses. The precious Leo Levi recorded collection of Italian Jewish musical traditions includes four versions of Elohim … remained a footnote in studies of Italian Jewish liturgical music, had they not had the good fortune of being set to …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… from archives around the world offer unique vistas on past musical cultures. These findings show the extent to which repertoires of traditional music have evolved in the century or more since commercial … the Bulgarian Sephardic tradition. The distinguished ethnomusicologist Nikolai Kaufmann collected the song and …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… in Unger’s history: Unger decided to “devote his life to music making” after hearing Mahler’s Lied von der Erde ; he … concerts whose programs revolved mainly around Mahler’s music to the repeated efforts to perform Mahler in Canada. … to Mahler, according to Tesler-Mabé, is not only a musical and personal issue. Mahler, he argues, deeply …