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El Jiwneh Hagalil (Lied der galilaischen Arbeiter) – God will Build the Galilee (Galilee Worker’s Song)
… and contexts of performance since it is arguably time of composition in the Kabbalists’ circles of sixteenth-century … content of his album. El jiwneh Hagalil answered both the musical and pedagogical requirements of this album. … ( ahava raba ) mode, El jiwneh Hagalil offers a contrasting musical symbol signifying the modern Jewish national rebirth …
Piris Eliyahu
… during which he conducted ethnographic research on the musical traditions of the Mountain Jews situated in the … music orchestras in Daghestan and in Israel played his compositions, which are based on the classical music that … Azerbaijan, Turkey and Central Asia. Eliyahu also wrote a musical piece proclaimed by various journalists as the …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern Jewish musical research. Idelsohn’s life traversed several … artifacts that still define in many ways the Jewish musical imagination in both its scholarly and popular forms. … melodies. Mother was blessed with a special talent for composition. When she listened to Father reading some …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… sounded beautiful to me, loved singing and had a very good musical memory, excellent for remembering melodies that he … left Libau in the spring of 1901 for Berlin to continue my musical education. Hebrew version: He kept his promise and … his Jewish admirers clung to him enthusiastically. The compositions he gave us to sing were of very mediocre …
‘Le-El ‘Olam’ by Mordecai Dato: In search of a melody for an ancient Italian Hebrew poem
… addition to ‘Lekhah Dodi.’ Even more important for the main musical argument of this Song of the Month (see below), the … his fathers’ poetry with ample commentaries. Another composition of his that R. Dato may be referring to is … with corrections apparently by Dato himself, includes a musical reference in its title, “Benigun anshei emunah’ i.e. …
Enrico Fink
… Enrico Fink has carried out his music and musical research interests together with his ongoing … project devoted to the study of Italian Jewish musical repertoires. As a musician, he has devoted himself … song as well as his own renditions, arrangements and compositions, into very diverse musical environments, …
Flory Jagoda
… Jagoda has widely promulgated and enriched the Sephardic musical tradition in the United States. Born in 1923, in Sarajevo, she was raised in a Ladino-speaking and musical extended family and a grandmother who sang Sephardic … and teaching the music of her Bosnian childhood and her own compositions, including the globally popular Ocho …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… logic, that they preserved older layers of Jewish musical memory although he did not discount also the … (generically defined as “medieval French chants”). Musically speaking, Minhag Carpentras, as Chants hebraïques … The musical structure of this piece is rather unique. Its compositional principle is somehow similar to Hebrew …
Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur
… Childhood and early musical career Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur (يوسف زعرور) was born … and had become passionate about music, he tried to build a musical instrument similar to the qanun by himself. This … introductions to songs; Dori 2022:197-8 ). One of his vocal compositions, ‘ Ya najmat ebilel’ ( يا نجمة ال بالليل تزهي ) …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… experiences, it was widely appreciated for its beauty, musical features, and spiritual power, emerging from … and rhythmic qualities. These two functions—the extramusical as the primary and the aesthetic as the … of transmission must be considered when evaluating Yosl’s compositions. Second, a typical feature that appears in …