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Soothing Lyres and epôidai: Music Therapy and the Cases of Orpheus, Empedocles and David
… 23470 … Ancient music … Ancient … Greek … Ancient Greece … Music theory … Aristotle … Philosophy … Music therapy … Soothing …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
Leó Weiner
… Leó Weiner was born in Budapest. He had his first music and piano lessons from his brother, and later studied at the Academy of Music in Budapest, studying with János (Hans) Koessler. … one composition: his Serenade, Op. 3. In 1908, he became a theory teacher at the Budapest Academy of Music. He was …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… history is complex, revealing a number of interrelated musical and textual settings. Looking into the information … of different composers, such as the prominent Iraqi-Jewish musician Salah al-Kuwaity (1908-1986), and in some cases it … effect of this popular recording supports Charles Seeger’s theory regarding the impact of technology on oral tradition …