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The Music of Kurdistan Jews - a Synopsis of their Musical Styles
… including a strong tendency towards linguistic as well as musical dialect formation. It is only natural that the musical traditions of Kurdistan Jews should also have been … even to heighten the differentiation of variants of musical styles, forms, and melodical intonations. On the whole, …
Plurivocality in the Liturgical Music of the Jews of San‘a (Yemen)
… characteristics. These characteristics are found in the musical existence of certain specific musical elements common to all the Yemenite Jews. The search … - to deepen our understanding of the traditional musical styles of the Yemenite Jews. Plurivocality, the …
Moshe Attias
… was, above all, a “hidden treasure” within the Israeli musical scene. Unlike most of his contemporary Moroccan … Its content is varied in terms of textual genres and musical styles. Yet, one feature remained constant, and it is his …
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 … who travelled to Egypt and brought with them local musical styles and repertoires (e.g. the muwashshaḥat ) that would …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… the preservation and research of these distinctive Jewish musical repertoires. Her activities led to the … universities and colleges, developing a focus on the Jewish musical practices in the Middle East. Significantly, she was … The Music of Kurdistan Jews - a Synopsis of their Musical Styles, 1971 Robert Lachmann: His Achievement and His …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… such as seli h ot . I have studied in great detail the musical setting of this poem in Sephardic communities, … among various communities, there seems to be an underlying musical structure tying together all the documented versions … in Jerusalem. He sang in a variety of languages and styles, sacred and secular in Neo-Aramaic (the vernacular …
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 … intentionally composed in imagined manufactured “archaic” styles, so as to circumvent the period of exile and express …
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 … little to rag-time, it allies itself not with the European styles of first-generation immigrants, but with a home-grown …
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 … Turkish Jews in Israel, the predominance of Arabic music styles (Middle Eastern or Maghrebi ones) in Sephardic …
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, … of musicians, musical traditions, repertories, genres, and styles that were prevalent in the regions explored, but to …