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Yaqub Murad al-‘Amari (aka Yaqub Bar-Nay)
… occupations out of necessity. Wrote a manuscript on Iraqi music theory but was discouraged by lack of recognition for … both recorded by IBA in 1970. Articles: Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited by Esther Warkov. … vocalist … Iraqi Broadcasting Ensemble in Baghdad … Oriental Music Orchestra … oud player … nay player … Yaqub …
Abraham Salman
… the Middle East. Blind from the age of two, he studied music as a child in Baghdad’s school for blind Jewish … was a prominent member of the Israel Broadcast Authority’s Oriental music orchestra until his retirement in the late … 1984 take on the then-emerging genre of Israeli 'Oriental' pop ( musika mizrahit ; aka Mediterranean Israeli …
Salim Shibith (Salim Ha-Cohen)
… of the maqam , wrote Na‘im Twayna in his series on Iraqi musicians in Al-Anba’ newspaper (June 30, 1978). It is … , read The Urban Repertoire of Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel: Instrumental Improvisation … Music Broadcast Ensemble … Israel Broadcast Authority’s Oriental music orchestra … Salim Shibith (Salim Ha-Cohen) …
Armand Sabah
… Israel with his family at age ten. His father came from a musical family related to the renowned Moroccan singer and composer Sami Elmagribi. The love of music in his household was evident through the constant … instruction in classical guitar, flamenco, classical and oriental piano, oud, and Kamanga violin. He also worked with …
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 … here, and also to collect melodies [“neginot”] from the Oriental Jews (such as Yemenites, Maghrebis, and Persians, … recordings (August 1, 1913) Lurie encountered the only "non-Oriental" Jew, Yaacov, a carpenter (plotnik) from the …
An Ashkenazi version of “Ehad mi yode’a” in…Arabic
… words of the song are ‘Ehad manda’i’. The tune sounds to me Oriental. A few years ago, I heard the song ‘Ehad mi yode’a’ … He indeed agrees that the tune he sings bears Mizrahi (Oriental) or Arabic elements. Unlike few other Aramaic … remarks refer to the two main sharqi versions documented musically, the ones from the ancient cities of Aleppo …
The Idelsohn Project
… Is music intrinsically political? The best-known Jewish song in … (1929) and his monumental ten volumes titled Hebräisch-orientalischer Melodienschatz (1914-1932). Yet, in spite of … public emotions; the distinctive physiognomy of Jewish Orientalism and its ties to early Arab- Jewish …
Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs
… Judith R. Cohen and Risto Pekka Pennanen In 2008 the Jewish Music Research Centre released a 4-CD package entitled An … of Jerusalem. … Idelsohn, Abraham Zvi 1923 >>> Gesänge der orientalischen Sefardim. Jerusalem-Berlin-Wien. ( Hebräisch-orientalischer Melodieschatz IV) … Kalyviotis, Aristomenis, …
Paul Fenton
… Paul Fenton is a French-British Jewish historian and orientalist, a professor of Middle Eastern studies and … especially in the areas of mysticism, philosophy and music. He is also considered an authority on Medieval Hebrew …
El Jiwneh Hagalil (Lied der galilaischen Arbeiter) – God will Build the Galilee (Galilee Worker’s Song)
… content of his album. El jiwneh Hagalil answered both the musical and pedagogical requirements of this album. … ( ahava raba ) mode, El jiwneh Hagalil offers a contrasting musical symbol signifying the modern Jewish national rebirth … of the augmented second colors the melody in distinguished oriental style. See the archival recordings at the National …