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Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… Eastern European Jewish sources), a third part with new musical material, and a return to the second part as the … poem about the Sabbath candles that appeared in 1929 in a musical supplement to the German Jewish newspaper …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… the earliest surviving specimens of Middle Eastern Jewish musical traditions. By nature of the technological … opportunity to validate historical theories of musical change that have been based solely on the … of the Kyiv cylinder collection, Phonoarchive of Jewish Musical Heritage: The Collection of Jewish Folklore: …
La Gallarda matadora
… primary reasons for this link is the similarity between the musical languages of the two genres. Fusions between … Sephardic music and flamenco were inspired by a few pioneer musical projects carried out over the past four decades that … and Las señas del marido . Therefore, although there is no musical connection between the Sephardic and flamenco …

Self-Revelation and the Law - Arnold Schoenberg in his Religious Works
… by an injection into the heart is described in striking musical language. Why, then, should self revelation be …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… A lengthy introduction provides ample historical and musical contexts. Karnes did not spare any effort in trying … the cultural life of Jews in Latvia, with emphasis on their musical ecosystem. According to Karnes, folk songs were … documents that provide glimpses into public and private musical life . . . tell different stories” (p. xix). Yet as …
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. … a very few wealthy persons owned pianos, and other musical instruments were hard to come by. The students could …
Mordekhai Hershman
… the porous line separating secular from the religious musical practices led by great cantors of the time such as … Isaiah (2:1-4) and the uniquely expressive through-composed musical score (8:30 minutes long, published in New York by … by a chamber orchestra consisting of strings and wind instruments. His pristine singing is devoid of any cantorial …
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 … The compositions he gave us to sing were of very mediocre musical value, although some expressed the Jewish sentiment. …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… circumstances in which Imber’s poem was shaped and the musical contrafactum (adaption of a preexisting melody to a … orally. It underwent, in the process of its reception and musical performances, changes and adaptations. The printed … set to music. [14] Moreover, the immediate reception and musical arrangement of Hatikvah was not as swift as it …