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32. Prosper, Prosper (Our Bridegroom, Our Bride)
… song exemplifies two widespread genres of Kerala folk music. Part I begins in the style of a “competition song” ( vāśippāṭṭtu ), in which two singers or groups of singers perform alternate stanzas (Zacharia …
31. The Bridegroom Dressed in Gold
… of a king, accompanied by guards and the thundering music of a military band. As Zacharia notes (2005, 198), … They present verbal reminders of neighboring cultural groups—first in the mention of a Hindu god of love and then … of what Weil calls cultural “diffusion” between the two groups. “All Dressed in Gold” appears in seventeen …
Ezra Barnea
… Above all Barnea was an educator, but also a synagogue musician, paytan and cantor, an expert on the Jerusalem … acquainted with the prayer customs of different ethnic groups. He also learned and became expert in the bakashot … repertoire of Jerusalem, a repository of paraliturgical music in which different Oriental traditions of piyyut …
Yaakov Huri
… relations dominating the encounters between European ethnomusicologists and their subjects of inquiry in Israel. Our … (from 1952 onwards) sought in Israel for a place where the musical tradition of their ancestors as they knew it was … as cantor not only by Babylonian Jews, but by other ethnic groups in Jerusalem, Greeks, Persians, Kurds and more. For …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… study aims to trace the unique characteristics of a type of music unparalleled in the central-eastern European … Hasidic repertoire.” Although the dominant function of this music was not aesthetic contemplation but rather the … constant migrations, along with marriages between the two groups, generated an awareness of the stylistic differences, …
1. Oh Lovely Parrot!
… the hunter’s attack they scattered, dividing into separate groups. The group founded by ten parrots (signifying the …
Enrico Fink
… Enrico Fink has carried out his music and musical research interests together with his ongoing … to contemporary, participating in and leading major groups and orchestras, but also giving classes, workshops, …
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 … all of the synagogue music from each of the exisitng ethnic groups, for instance, the Yemenites, Babylonians, Persians, …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… the earliest surviving specimens of Middle Eastern Jewish musical traditions. By nature of the technological … opportunity to validate historical theories of musical change that have been based solely on the … The recordings are all of male voices singing solo or in groups without instrumental accompaniment. One puzzling …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… history is complex, revealing a number of interrelated musical and textual settings. Looking into the information … of different composers, such as the prominent Iraqi-Jewish musician Salah al-Kuwaity (1908-1986), and in some cases it … and textual adaptations catering to different ethnic groups, religions, families, and individuals sharing a …