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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 … of historical interest. Even the “father” of Jewish music research, Abraham Z. Idelsohn , did not dedicate more than a …
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 … stored in the shelves of the Lebanese Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research (AMAR). Located in the little mountain village …
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 …
Clara Wenz
… Clara Wenz is an ethnomusicologist specializing in Middle Eastern music, music and sound studies, political … between Europe and the Middle East. Her current research project chronicles the present and past lives of a …
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 … of our poem, Shlomo Ibn Gabirol (ca. 1020-1058). Recent research has shown that these historical certainties have to …
Nili Belkind
… Nili Belkind is a research fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from Columbia University (2014) and is an ethnomusicologist specializing in the Middle East—with a special …
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. … between 1936 and 1939. This association reoriented her research focus from the canon of Western art music to …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… 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 … Gerson Kiwi, whose life and work are the subject of a major research project of the JMRC, met Nehemiah Hocha in …
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 … 1906; Idelsohn 1932, xviii, fn. 1), which he most likely researched for sources of Yiddish songs (but to no avail). …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… 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 … 9, 1970 (NLI Y 0278) Much remains to be refined in our research of the liturgical insertion “Elohim hashivenu.” The …