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Yaqub Murad al-‘Amari (aka Yaqub Bar-Nay)
… occupations out of necessity. Wrote a manuscript on Iraqi music theory but was discouraged by lack of recognition for his … both recorded by IBA in 1970. Articles: Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited by Esther Warkov. …
Curt Sachs
… Born in Berlin, Sachs studied piano, music theory and composition as a youth in that city. He began a … as an art historian, but promptly became more devoted to music, eventually being appointed director of the Staatliche …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and music. The neighborhood had grown around an absorption … be fired at the kiln and put up for sale, and a traditional music and dance troupe . Also named Meseret , the troupe … parents. Finally, there is no engagement with critical theory and the prism it brought to ethnomusicology in the …
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 … world” (p. xxvii). This idea is of course a critique of the theory of the proto-Indo-European roots of European …
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 … by philosophical aesthetics, social history, and critical theory. Mockert has been involved in the joined research …
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 … One can be found in recent scholarship on Actor-Network Theory (ANT), the other comes from the field of archeology. …
Yonatan Turgeman
… PhD candidate in the Hebrew University Musicology Department, a fellow of the PhD Honors Program in the Mandel School of Advanced Studies, and an active musician ('Avodot Afar'). His dissertation, 'The Science of … of an academic discipline. His book, 'The Bridge is Dead: A Theory & Short History of Everyday Songs in Hebrew', was …
Fragment hébraïque d’un traité attribué a Marchetto de Padoue
… texte d'un recueil de trois textes hébraïques de théorie musicale conservés dans le Ms. Hébreu 1037 de la … … Manuscripts … Manuscript … Hebrew manuscript … Treatise … Music Treatise … Music theory … Fragment hébraïque d’un traité attribué a Marchetto …
The Reliability of Oral Transmission: The Case of Samaritan Music
… concerning the processes of oral transmission of musical culture, the selection of informants in ethnomusicological research is necessarily haphazard. Yet, … about the past has not been provided.' Of course, no single theory can be expected to apply to all societies, since the …
The Musical Passage in Ibn Ezra's "Book of the Garden"
… born in 1055 in Granada and died after 1135. He refers to music in many of his poems, mainly those describing … wine-drinking sessions; he also deals with the theory of music in two of his books: the book on poetic art, Kitab …