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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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
"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 …
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 …