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Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… narratives are often based on the idea of historical influence: they aim at demonstrating how individuals altered … 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 …
Music, Muslims and Jews
… Jewish-Muslim encounter was intense. Shared Muslim-Jewish [musical] spaces (regardless of ethnicities) have become the … materials that highlight different aspects of the musical lives Jews in/from Arab countries, Turkey, Iran and … and Persian musical genres, modal frameworks and rhythms influenced the religious music of Jews throughout this vast …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… German music as a “universal” language against which other musical nationalisms in Europe defined themselves. … voices in synagogue choirs are an important aspect of this musical innovation. Third, the use of instrumental music, … as a self-contained unit sometimes exposed to “external influences.” Our approach attempts to release the music …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… “ Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan Jewish Musical Map .” This extract is accompanied by the recordings … and Aramaic) poetry. This poetry is set to Andalusian musical genres, not only to selections of Al-Ala, but also … perform it, an indication of the noticeable kabbalistic influences of their liturgical practices. The leader of the …
Jeff Klepper
… Rabbie Dan Freelander. Together they founded the famous musical duo named “Kol B’Seder” (meaning “everything’s ok” … Their idea was to use music to connect people and create musical communities in the same way folk-music communities … answers questions about biographical details and music influence. Jeff Klepper - Interview with Mark Slobin …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… history is complex, revealing a number of interrelated musical and textual settings. Looking into the information … [See Appendix: Texts , “Fog al-Nakhal,” N. Ghazali]. The musical arrangement is attributed to Nazem Naim and Jamil … form differs between “Balini-b Balwa” and the other Ghazali-influenced melodies. While all recordings of “Fog al-Nakhal” …
The Idelsohn Project
… as a path-breaking scholar of Jewish music and liturgy who influenced multiple generations of Jewish and Israeli … music research,” and one of the earliest proponents of musical Hebrewism as the basis for the sonic renewal of … remains an enigma. This lacuna is unfortunate. Idelsohn’s musical nationalism presents an ideal case to further …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… content is serious. Important and elevated [content] that influences the course of a person’s spirit as a person! … his own Gesamtkunstwerk, ‘Yiftah’, as ‘hizzayon negini’ (musical play). Modern Hebrew writers embraced the biblical … plays, plural of ‘hizzayon’] of Israel’s history, with musical accompaniment (i.e., ‘hizzayon negini’), ‘that will …
Symphony Overture in G (1732)
… Under the influence of the kabbalistic ideas developed in Safed during … work especially in Italy. During the eighteenth century musical manifestations on the occasion of Hosha'na Rabbah …
Zoock (Volkstanz) – Zhok (Folk dance)
… carry the names of famous klezmer players. And although the musical essence for these pieces were indeed influenced by the klezmers’ playing and lost some of their … characteristics, yet it would be fine not to include a musical example to this thesaurus of klezmer music. …