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Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century

… projects, prepared historically informed and creative performances, and organized a network of annual conventions … reinventing the parameters and dynamics of Yiddish music performance-scholarship. Rubin's book allows the reader to … paragraphs each on numerous aspects of klezmer history and performance alongside confirmatory excerpts from Rubin's own …

Alicia Benassayag Bendayan

… can be heard throughout the vast recorded collection of her performances, located at the sound archives of the National … memory, displaying an unusual degree of consistency between performances. Already in the early 1950’s, Alicia was … Palacín, and ethnomusicologist Henrietta Yurchenco. Her performances from this era were documented in scholarly …

Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv

… music and text into digital format to facilitate analysis, performance and sharing, Hopefully coordinated efforts will …

German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections

… initiatives, communal memory as well as financial and performance capabilities. All these vectors are decisive in … elements of their autochthonous repertoires and performance practices into the German model. Moreover, there … contend that only a thorough innovation of repertoires and performance practices, a process that can answer to the …

Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography

… modes ( qignit ) covered in this literature, in relation to performance practices I encountered in Israel among … Israel, focusing on “change and continuity” largely through performance practice, the relationship between music and … materials, organology, tunings, playing positions, performance practices and (at times divergently interpreted) …

Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3

… of the melody (eleven out of thirty-four bars in the actual performance) consist of bars of one or two tones only (bars … repeated with open and closed cadences. Moreover, in actual performance, the entire nign is repeated in several cycles, … performing Hassidim. [5] Openness to diverse contexts of performance. The nign can be performed while the …

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A Moroccan Synagogue Service

… Jewish music in Israel and international festivals. The performance of the liturgy, that daily, weekly and yearly … structures and contents of sacred texts whose ceremonial performance and clear-cut pronunciation precedes musical … the mechanisms generating Moroccan Jewish liturgical performances. The following analysis of a weekly evening …