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The Performance Practice of the Rig-Veda: A Musical Expression of Excited Speech
… Chant … Hymns … The Performance Practice of the Rig-Veda: A Musical Expression of Excited Speech … Dalia Cohen …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… of the ‘Akedah narrative in Ashkenazi culture, as expressed through the poems that were sung to Niggun ‘Akedah. … century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records … Such remarks provide little information concerning the music itself, yet they offer valuable insights for the …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov, a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From … Shiloah of the Hebrew University, an eminent scholar of music in the Islamic world and of the Jewish musical …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, when new forms of expressing Jewishness through music challenged the normative status of traditions of old. …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent … one of the most distinguished and long-standing Moroccan musicians in Israel. This short note prepared by JMRC … draws among other sources from Dr. Christopher Silver’s impressions following his 2011 encounter, in company with …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… in sections according to the different Turkish makam s (musical modes), titled Shirei Israel be-eretz ha-qedem … 18th century: Venice, with its history of Hebrew printing presses and trade; and the Western port city of Livorno, … to makam Rast places this version in the realm of Turkish music. Secondly, the title clearly delineates its …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… modestly titled “Unsere erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , an insert of the Berlin-based periodical Die jüdische Presse . Birnbaum introduces in it the score of Kol … 1794). Arguing against writers who maintained that the music of Jewish communities can be reduced to a common …
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 … famous record is in fact by no means famous, I use this expression to highlight its centrality to this article as well … stored in the shelves of the Lebanese Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research (AMAR). Located in the little …
Ben-Zion (Yisrael Noach) Kapov-Kagan
… Association. Kapov-Kagan was well renowned for his expressive interpretations, released many recordings, and … … Hazzan … Chazzan … Odessa … Cantor … Composer … Synagogue music … New York … Ben-Zion (Yisrael Noach) Kapov-Kagan …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… of qinot from Spain dated in 1481 ('Poetry as an expression of spiritual reality in the late Sephardic piyyut … 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 …