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La place traditionnelle du melisme dans la cantillation
… des musicologues vient d'être attirée sur un procédé de composition trop caractéristique pour n'être pas volontaire, … depuis la cantillation primitive jusque dans la composition musicale la plus élaborée. … 23451 … Melisma … Composition … Hebrew cantillation … Musical composition … Music … La place traditionnelle du …
The Training of Hazzanim in Nineteenth-Century Germany
… German cantors, here and there, notating their own compositions had little effect on the basic oral nature of … one generation to the next, from a hazzan skilled in the musical tradition to a young novice eager to learn, still …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… 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, … same clever modification of the original melody. The modern compositional technique and the fact that no such feature …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… modestly titled “Unsere erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , … can be reduced to a common source, Birnbaum proposed that musical diversity is the natural state of Jewish culture. … request several of these additional Portuguese liturgical compositions, drawn from one of the richest manuscript …
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 … synagogue cantors, ḥazzanim, often tended to structure new compositions of (para)liturgical hymns (known as piyyutim …
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 … periods corresponds to the poetic stanza.” This compositional model originated in Al-Andalus, and stems from …
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 … article, one sees how the allure of Rossi’s Hebrew compositions to modern scholars impacts the perception of …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… from archives around the world offer unique vistas on past musical cultures. These findings show the extent to which … characteristic of the twentieth-century Bulgarian school of composition. His modern polyphonic arrangement was recorded …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … urban shtick of Porter’s and Kern’s songs; or the compositional virtuosity of any of the above” (Greenberg …
Moshe Cordova
… m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our knowledge … career as a synagogue singer and composer. Parallel to his musical career he developed a business in the field of … substantial collections of scores of more than one hundred compositions by Cordova and other Ottoman Muslim and Jewish …