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Soothing Lyres and epôidai: Music Therapy and the Cases of Orpheus, Empedocles and David
… in ancient Greek thought on a likeness between soul and musical harmony. This idea involves also a “harmonious” … 1963; Lambropoulou 1995–1996; Franklin 2002) from material aspects of human life to the kosmos . A strong bridge between the pre-Socratic harmonia and musical healing is built by Aristotle in his Politics …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… ‘Akedah. It will assess their thematic content, formal aspects, as well as their cultural contexts and functions. … century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records … Institute of Religion Another early example of such a musical instruction is found in the book of customs, …
Moshe Attias
… was, above all, a “hidden treasure” within the Israeli musical scene. Unlike most of his contemporary Moroccan … Its content is varied in terms of textual genres and musical styles. Yet, one feature remained constant, and it … Mwijo’s repertoire also reveals some of the ambivalent aspects of modern Moroccan Jewish identity. Religious zeal …
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 … world during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. In musical terms, the Nahda is associated with the emergence of … markers for them?” (Kopytoff 1986, 66-67). In chronicling aspects of “ Yom Yom Odeh ’s” biography, I suggest adding 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 … texts suggested a comprehensive method for addressing the musical aspects of Hebrew liturgical poetry from an evolutionary …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… A lengthy introduction provides ample historical and musical contexts. Karnes did not spare any effort in trying … the cultural life of Jews in Latvia, with emphasis on their musical ecosystem. According to Karnes, folk songs were … of the editorial policy employed in handling the various aspects of Melngailis’s manuscript. The only unfortunate …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… to Mahler, according to Tesler-Mabé, is not only a musical and personal issue. Mahler, he argues, deeply affected Unger because he musically expressed a shared German-Jewish experience of … of sacrificial transcendence.” (Sacks 2013, 113). These aspects are excluded from Tesler-Mabé’s view, most likely …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… Similarly, Rubin’s study relies heavily on minute musical detail—including intricate discussions of form and … he embraces the idea that canonical figures can define a musical style, and that a ready community will receive and … presenting a couple of paragraphs each on numerous aspects of klezmer history and performance alongside …
Music, Muslims and Jews
… Jewish-Muslim encounter was intense. Shared Muslim-Jewish [musical] spaces (regardless of ethnicities) have become the … It will consolidate materials that highlight different aspects of the musical lives Jews in/from Arab countries, Turkey, Iran and …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… tourists to Ethiopian culture. Traditional Ethiopian musical instruments including the krar (harp) , masinqo (one … scholarship, much of which was focused on the Jewish aspects of the community’s culture, or alternatively, had … Jews into hegemonic Jewish Israeliness. Studying secular musical traditions that Beta Israel had shared with their …