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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 … in Canada, his advancement of non-professional communal musical production, or his negotiation of artistic modernism …
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 …
Yaakov Huri
… (from 1952 onwards) sought in Israel for a place where the musical tradition of their ancestors as they knew it was … units within each ‘eda, and therefore discards local musical lore in favor of a generic repertoire related to large social conglomerates. More consequentially, hybrid musical configurations are sidelined, leading to the …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… development against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon … this style. The melody itself is not based on a “universal musical language” (Avenary’s term) like pentatonics, but … this topical motif of the High Holidays forms a musical link between the festival season and Shofet kol …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… rest serve as archival records of an earlier time and its musical repertoire. The songs are all notated with piano … in such a ready-to-use manner, easily accessible to all musically literate people regardless of Hebrew knowledge. … than to create any feeling of Orientalism. Curiously, the musical notation for the singer in the first measure (and …
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 … the minhag Italiani this liturgical moment was a special “musical station” (i.e. a section of the liturgy that is …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… sung preceding and during the High Holidays. Ashkenazi musical traditions of Shofet kol ha'aretz Our previous … development against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon … this style. The melody itself is not based on a “universal musical language” (Avenary’s term) like pentatonics, but …
Communal singing
… a day's work to sing communally. As the years passed, this musical activity reached the cities, and communal …
Atah Ehad
… — The Discovery of the Orient and the Uniformity of Jewish Musical Traditions in the Teaching of Abraham Zvi Idelsohn, … song and melody] Jerusalem: Keter, 1990, p. 137. [5] More examples of Hassidic melodies shortened when used in Zionist …