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«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk Music, the composer Solomon Rosowsky published a short … university-level students in the late Russian Empire was a musician at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. [3] While the … world strenuously denied Jews entry, Russia’s greatest musical academy welcomed them with open arms. Picture 1: …
Sher
… and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from … refers to the term in question. It also indicates whether musical notation or sound recordings are included in the … performed with partners.” EncyJud 1971, p. 1266 . “Two groups developed dance forms of their own--the Hasidim and …
Sirba
… and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from … refers to the term in question. It also indicates whether musical notation or sound recordings are included in the … Moldavian bulgareasca is a sub-species of sirba; Stoinav groups his bulgareascas with the sirba (1972)...” Feldman …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… th centuries and developed under Turkish-Ottoman and Arabic musical influences. Contents The tradition of … This singing is part of the liturgical and para-liturgical musical tradition of communities that descended from Jews … only on Shabbat. The practice of singing the baqqashot in groups seems to have originated in Sefad among the students …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… legislative design. Because of the “folk” origins of its music and the re-writing of Naftali Herz Imber’s poem … circumstances in which Imber’s poem was shaped and the musical contrafactum (adaption of a preexisting melody to a … and its splintering into discrete and often irreconcilable groups whose last moment of global solidarity was marked by …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… men's songs (including liturgical and para-liturgical music). The repertoire also deals with themes that reflect … life, as well as material and corporeal subjects. [1] The music in these songs reflects the feelings and state of the … include quarter notes, pairs of eighth notes and pairs or groups of four sixteenth notes. The text-music relation in …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… remembered for his contributions to the liturgical music of American Reform Judaism and his work on Biblical … most important early collectors and arrangers of Zionist music in America. In 1916, at the age of 21, Binder founded … be found in other folk song' (1932: XXIX). Furthermore, he groups this melody with a number of songs that are 'fused of …
The Music of Kurdistan Jews - a Synopsis of their Musical Styles
… 9480 … Kurdistan … Kurdistan Jews … Jews … Kurds … Culture … Musical traditions … Jewish cultural groups … Musical styles … The Music of Kurdistan Jews - a Synopsis of …
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 …
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 …