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The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… modestly titled “Unsere erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , … 1794). Arguing against writers who maintained that the music of Jewish communities can be reduced to a common … Driven by a nationalist-oriented agenda to constitute a history of Jewish music in Europe which would resonate with …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone is the … stored in the shelves of the Lebanese Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research (AMAR). Located in the little …
Stefanie Mockert
… Mockert, who graduated in Musicology from Humboldt University, Berlin, is a researcher at the Hebrew University's Jewish Music Research Centré. Her studies focus on the liturgical … perspective inspired by philosophical aesthetics, social history, and critical theory. Mockert has been involved in …
Clara Wenz
… Clara Wenz is an ethnomusicologist specializing in Middle Eastern music, music and sound studies, political … (CAAS), 9th Symposium, Paris, France, 19-20 Oct 2018. “History on Rewind: Traveling with an Arab-Jewish Baidaphon …
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 … this date was associated with other catastrophes in Jewish history. In spite of its prominence in Jewish historical …
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. … interfacing between multiple musical disciplines, history, comparative musicology and Jewish music, and a …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… piyyut ,' [In Hebrew], Exile and diaspora: studies in the history of the Jewish people presented to Professor Haim … 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 …
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 … life work. The survey also includes a brief general history of folk song ethnography in Eastern Europe, and of …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… aim at demonstrating how individuals altered the course of history (“made history”) and how they were affected by it. … 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. …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take on assumed black music tastes) on which all of Berlin’s early works centred. … November 25, 2020. https://robertgreenbergmusic.com/music-history-monday-the-melody-lingers-on-irving-berlin/ Hamm, …