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Yaakov Huri
… (from 1952 onwards) sought in Israel for a place where the musical tradition of their ancestors as they knew it was … vast recorded collection shows a certain consistency in terms of the selection of her research collaborators. She … units within each ‘eda, and therefore discards local musical lore in favor of a generic repertoire related to …
Book Review: Music’s Making - The Poetry of Music; The Music of Poetry
… me at all. To the contrary, I would like to hear a few musical things about it. There was nothing to read about … I would indeed like to know what objection my opponents, musically—objectively, have against my work. So please … into a rather strange intellectual world. Some of the terms and phrases (middle voice, intersubjectivity, nomadic …
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 … This sour memory of Birnbaum contrasts with the laudatory terms with which Idelsohn praised his predecessor in his …
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. … the persistent instability of the Idelsohn household in terms of financial security and dwelling locations. Frequent …
Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs
… public interest in the role commercial recordings had on musical traditions from the early twentieth century, that … Effendi dominated the playlist of Sephardic communities in terms of his proportional share of the market, he was by no … ago Sunday, November 22, 2020, 7 p.m. Hadass Pal-Yarden : musical direction, vocals Yaniv Ovadia : baglama Eliyahu …
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, … an integrative project both in practical and theoretical terms. … To attain our goals we will capitalize on the …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… Similarly, Rubin’s study relies heavily on minute musical detail—including intricate discussions of form and … he embraces the idea that canonical figures can define a musical style, and that a ready community will receive and … of contemporary relevance. Does it work? On the narrow terms that Rubin has set out for himself—one chapter on mode …
צלילי איוב במערב־התיכון של ארצות הברית: איש רציני יהודי לנוכח עץ החיים הנוצרי
… shout in harmony, or did they produce noise? In theological terms, does the Book of Job, its finale notwithstanding, … salvation or disillusionment does it point, when viewed in terms of the movies’ retrospective gaze at the America of … move in opposite directions. The respective, concluding musical gesture in each – Jefferson Airplane’s “Somebody to …
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 … Hava Nogilo (no. 53). This melody has three parts. In terms of harmonic minor, two sections end on the dominant …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, 1970), Hanoch Avenary set a new … texts suggested a comprehensive method for addressing the musical aspects of Hebrew liturgical poetry from an … the basic pattern A x B we have seen in written sources in terms of rhythmic organization (fixed meter in A, flexible …
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 a new …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… in sections according to the different Turkish makam s (musical modes), titled Shirei Israel be-eretz ha-qedem … of informants that have been recorded since the 1950’s. In terms of performance, the song is still connected to … we find that all variants share a common structure of four musical phrases of relatively equal length, with similar …


