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The Music on Comtat-Venaissin
… Music in Palestine. Milhaud, who was a close correspondent of this organization, obviously wrote his piece in French. … all written in the Comtadin-Jewish dialect, a mixture of Hebrew and Provençal, which on occasion one still hears … as possible, the Comtadin airs. [6] Today the Provençal pronunciation has almost disappeared, for only the sons [of …
"Ayumah be-har hamor" (The Beloved on the mountain of myrrh)
… Shabazi, signed Alsbab[az] , containing six stanzas in Hebrew and Arabic alternately. The structure of each stanza is: four verses of two hemistiches, three … completes the last two verses of the stanza. The singer's pronunciation of Hebrew reveals that he was educated in …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… This document, in the form of a synoptic table, incorporates three versions of … text for easy online search and mobile viewing. Idelsohn's Hebrew and English biographies, written in the early 1930s, … to deliver some lectures. My work of the recorded songs and pronunciations I finished and submitted to Prof. Exner. It …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Preface The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century … Jewish history, including among other things the revival of Hebrew in Ottoman Palestine, the creation of a new secular … to teach at the college, despite having difficulties in the pronunciation of some words and having some trouble walking. …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… This is a short extract of the article “ Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the … not exclusively, dominated by the singing of paraliturgical Hebrew (and at times Judeo-Arabic and Aramaic) poetry. This … of sacred texts whose ceremonial performance and clear-cut pronunciation precedes musical concerns. These texts are an …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… makes public a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a … songs, it seems that the absence of a scholar familiar with Hebrew and Yiddish folk songs was detrimental to this … circles in Eastern Europe. Furthermore, the Ashkenazi pronunciation is apparent in the transcription of some …
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 is the copy of a 78rpm record of a pizmon , a Hebrew para-liturgical hymn called “ Yom Yom Odeh ” (Every … modal and melodic style, Tabbach’s Arabic sounding Hebrew pronunciation (such as the glottal ‘ayn or aspirated ḥet ), …
A.Z. Idelsohn and the Study of the Traditional Pronunciations of Hebrew (Hebrew)
… is well-known for his pioneering work in the field of Hebrew musicology, primarily for his recording and research … Idelsohn also became acquainted with their traditional pronunciations, which he described and discussed in several …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… from the 1998 JMRC recording Nights in Canaan, Early Songs of the Land of Israel (1882-1946) . … Not all traditional … performance context or with their melodies of old. The Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini, which used to be performed in … their energetic performances, with strong emphasis on the pronunciation of the guttural letters of the Hebrew …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… … In 1926, in “New Palestinean [sic] Folk Songs” – one of the earliest Zionist songbooks published in America – A. … The text draws from poetic formulae common in early Zionist Hebrew poetry. In Zionist songbooks and collections from the … letters in an inconsistent mix of Ashkenazic and Sephardic pronunciations. None of the songs have attributions for …