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Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… minhagim (“customs” or “traditions”) once the printing press started to produce prayer books in rapidly increasing … return to this feature later. Right now, let us move to the musical performance of the three verses. The precious Leo Levi recorded collection of Italian Jewish musical traditions includes four versions of Elohim …
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 … styles, so as to circumvent the period of exile and express the return to the ancestral land. Karnes’s model …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …