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Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one appeared … Rabinovitz and he took upon himself to teach me the music theory and voice training. Yiska’s memoire: [3a] He … sounded beautiful to me, loved singing and had a very good musical memory, excellent for remembering melodies that he …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… in the Jewish past. A case in point is the scholar and musician Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern Jewish musical research. Idelsohn’s life traversed several … of Jewish scholarship, and the creation of modern Jewish music as a whole. He left behind a legacy of iconic books …
Sonic Ruins: Accessory Images for Book
This page contains complementary resources for Sonic Ruins of Modernity: Judeo-Spanish…
Sonic Ruins: Accessory Examples for Book
This page contains complementary resources for Sonic Ruins of Modernity: Judeo-…
Berukhim atem qehal emmunai
An old Sephardi piyyut for circumcision, it is sung by the congregation as the child to…
Qumi ve-sifdi torah
Another qinnah performed before the reading of the Torah on the Ninth of Av. The melody…
Eikha yashvah badad (Lamentations 1:1-4 and 5:21)
… read in public according to the masoretic accents. The AAB musical form of the melody reflects the particular division …
Alekhem 'eda qedoshah
… of the Temple of Jerusalem, are one of the oldest musical layers in the Western Sephardi liturgical …
Divre Yermiyahu (Jeremiah 1:1-9)
… Av. The subdued, mournful style of this melody recalls the musical characteristics of the chanting of q innot (dirges) …
Hallelu et adonay kol goyim (2)
This is another melody for hallel, used for the Festival of the Tabernacles (Succoth),…