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Sharon Bernstein
… and has shaped a career spanning performance, teaching, and composition. She has led Yiddish song workshops in venues … Bernstein also maintains a broader interest in Jewish musical traditions from around the world, particularly in …
My Path to Jewish Music
… journalistic writing formed a direct extension of his musical career at a crucial moment in his life. These essays … early influence ignited Stutschewsky’s commitment to Jewish musical expression—the collection traces the author’s … elements of Jewish folk music. At the heart of his original compositions stand numerous songs imbued with a refined …
Recordings of Persian Classical Music, Tehran, April 19, 1961
… Zu’ari or Zooghi (Zarb) and his son Johangir (violin). A composition, consisting of three main sections: an … (violin and vocals). … Edith Gerson Kiwi’s Recordings of Musical Traditions from Iran … Recordings of Persian …
Edith Gerson-Kiwi in Tehran (1961): Documents from a Revealing Journey
… by the playlist Edith Gerson Kiwi’s Recordings of Musical Traditions from Iran . “Persia’s geographical … was left intact as the single refuge of their combined musical thought. How it came about that Persia emerged … paragraph of her monograph The Persian Doctrine of Dastga-Composition: A Phenomenological Study of the Musical Modes , …
A Fine Reciprocity
… double vector that meets in the middle is one variety of musical permutation, the musical palindrome. Less severe in its restrictive ordering, … experience, in going out to meet the poem or musical composition, I find it coming toward me. The active lover …
Antiguo Cancionero Sefardí: Old Judeo-Spanish Songs Recovered
… and Havassy 2009), which focused on Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) musical incipits appearing at the head of Hebrew … YHM7) is a compendium of piyyutim from the Hebrew Ottoman musical tradition. It consists of 143ff apparently binding … salen todos los bilbiles a cantar ’ is a hitherto unknown composition. It consists of three strophes of four lines …
Steve Reich
… at Cornell University, he turned to music, studying composition at the Juilliard School and earning a master’s … rhythmic structures and explored sound as process. Reich’s compositions often draw on diverse influences, including … Ethnographic Imports … American composer & pioneer of musical minimalism … Steve Reich … biography …
Translating Tropes (and Psalmodies): New Sources on Steve Reich’s Ethnographic Imports
… 1982 article (“Hebrew Cantillation as an Influence on Composition”; Reich and Hillier 2004, 114) that this was the … is two fold – at least – firstly I am interested in the musical structure (arrangement) of the ta’amim independent … notes, scales, etc. That is, I am interested in the basic musical structure of cantillation more that the particular …
A. Spring: Nerdi Natan Reho
… This piece serves as a greeting, introducing the entire composition. In it, the artists give thanks for the … Torah" from the depths of the communal and individual musical memory of R. Haim Louk. … 57 … 1 … 21 … 7 … 45832 … …
Mizmor L'David (Casale Monferrato)
… of Casale Monferrato is a variant of an early 19th century composition by Michele Bolaffi (1768-1842) from the Sephardi … Jewish congregations around the world. … Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection (1954-1961) …
He Has Delivred my Soul in Peace
… song is unusual in the Chabad tradition, as it is more of a musical composition than a niggun , as witnessed by its shape and … Jerusalem, Israel … Jerusalem, Israel … Kulmus Hanefesh: A Musical Journey into the Hassidic Niggun … Serussi, Serousi …
The Modernity of Piyyut Creativity: Ozreni El Hay Lehakhni'a
… (1905), p. 155. We are able now to date more precisely the composition of ‘Ozreni El Hay Lehakhni’a’ and tracing its … that includes a sizeable collection of Aleppo pizmonim in musical transcription. Idelsohn’s main research in Jerusalem … family from Jerusalem was considered a particularly musical one and for this reason Lachmann selected them for …


