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Eikha yashvah vadad
… Dr. Johana L. Spector as part of her comprehensive musical ethnography of Jewish immigrants from Arab lands. … Month feature, the JMRC website has grown exponentially in terms of sound resources. You can now hear and or read more …
Edith Gerson-Kiwi in Tehran (1961): Documents from a Revealing Journey
… by the playlist Edith Gerson Kiwi’s Recordings of Musical Traditions from Iran . “Persia’s geographical … was left intact as the single refuge of their combined musical thought. How it came about that Persia emerged … is clearly still under construction, particularly in terms of the layout, as the streets are yet to be fully …
A Fine Reciprocity
… double vector that meets in the middle is one variety of musical permutation, the musical palindrome. Less severe in its restrictive ordering, … even further (Hollander 2014, 49). Each of these terms can be applied to varieties of musical permutation, …
"Evolution of Jewish Music": Discourse Communities and Narrative Construction in the Performance of Music History
… videos, I hope to reflect on the presentation of the Jewish musical past. I argue that presentations of the musical past must be understood as existing within … organ in synagogue services (Sarna 2003, 202). Oppositional terms, though, are often poor descriptors of the phenomena …
Pre-Mediation and the Crisis of Experiential Memorialization: Listening to the Nova Exhibition
… which the historian Alison Landsberg describes in terms of “prosthetic memory” and the performance studies … 2019; Sterne and De Luca 2019). Amy Wlodarski’s notion of “musical witness” foregrounds music as testimony, … postmemory dynamics theorized by Marianne Hirsch (2012). Musical scoring intensifies these accounts, building toward …
Translating Tropes (and Psalmodies): New Sources on Steve Reich’s Ethnographic Imports
… testimonies meaning and tone using what Wlodarski terms “suture” (the merging two texts along shared textual … is two fold – at least – firstly I am interested in the musical structure (arrangement) of the ta’amim independent … notes, scales, etc. That is, I am interested in the basic musical structure of cantillation more that the particular …
8. Hāle Hāle Yǝbārkǝwo
… piece is very similar to its counterpart (CD I, no. 8) in terms of its melodic material, its antiphonal form, and the … Liturgical Traditions … Aliyah … Ethiopia … Jewish musical traditions … Rosh Hashanah … Ethiopian Jews … …
10. We’etu Άmlākiye Ǝsebḥəwo
… and 15th day of each month. The text praises God in general terms, and speaks of Him as a hero. It refrains from … Liturgical Traditions … Aliyah … Ethiopia … Jewish musical traditions … Rosh Hashanah … Ethiopian Jews … …
The Modernity of Piyyut Creativity: Ozreni El Hay Lehakhni'a
… voice. This recording is of much better quality also in terms of the instrumental accompaniment. The melody in both … that includes a sizeable collection of Aleppo pizmonim in musical transcription. Idelsohn’s main research in Jerusalem … family from Jerusalem was considered a particularly musical one and for this reason Lachmann selected them for …
43. The Song of Mother Sarah
… from that community living in Moshav Taoz, Israel. [3] This musical narrative of events from biblical stories about the … his father (Ginzberg 1968, 1:280) is phrased in very Indian terms when he cries out, “O my father, I will sin if I kick … Mountain” ( song 50 ), stanza 3 for reference to the same musical instruments. The 1981 audio and video recording of …
12. La Celebración de Purim + La Caída de Amán (Complas Muevas de Purim)
… it is worth noting that this copla includes numerous terms derived from languages adjacent to Judeo-Spanish. This … the version by David Haim, very similar to Sadikario’s in musical terms, consists of a disordered selection of stanzas from La …
A Flowering Debate: A Judeo-Spanish Song (not just) for Tu BiShvat
… emerged therefore from a rich multicultural poetic and musical background that can be traced back to the medieval … Mahur in its header (see Figure 2 above ). Evidence of this musical tradition of El debate de las flores is scant. A … East to West, is already “hispanized,” shifting the Turkish terms of the Eastern versions, especially the names of the …


