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Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… film composers deployed a number of myths, strategies, and repertoires in an attempt to entertain a …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… music, for example, one of the saddest arias in the opera repertoire was composed in the major mode: the lament Che … that additional chants in the Ashkenazi High Holiday repertoire, which today are considered to be in the major … of disappearing altogether from the Ashkenazi synagogue repertoire. Recently there have been attempts to revive the …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, when new … Yiddish-speaking world as well as in the modern Hebrew song repertoire in the Land of Israel. I am grateful to Dr. Neil … socialist messages and overtones of earlier Yiddish repertoires, some items of this overtly secular repertoire …
Moshe Attias
… would prove to be the source from which Mwijo drew his rich repertoire. Mwijo, following the long-standing tradition of … patriot. A preliminary, analytical review of Mwijo’s vast repertoire documented for over half a century reveals a … an aggressive Ashkenazi-dominated establishment. Mwijo’s repertoire also reveals some of the ambivalent aspects of …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… it might be categorized as a copla within the Judeo-Spanish repertoire. The complex chain of transmission connecting … piyyut sung in Turkey is connected to the Judeo-Spanish repertoire and other sources throughout the Mediterranean. … piyyut and traditional categories of the Judeo-Spanish repertoire, we will examine another interesting source …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… Baroque” phenomenon never decreased. Since 1978, the repertoire of the “Jewish Baroque,” as edited and published … the largest known work of Jewish Baroque music to the repertoire. As with previous works produced by Adler, … Hebrew University's founding. The “Jewish Baroque” musical repertoire is performed assiduously at festivals and …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… , alongside the development of new, colloquial and “light” repertoires associated with Cairo’s musical theater … in the performance and perpetuation of the above-mentioned repertoires. [3] Moreover, synagogue cantors, ḥazzanim, … to Egypt and brought with them local musical styles and repertoires (e.g. the muwashshaḥat ) that would have a …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… and research of these distinctive Jewish musical repertoires. Her activities led to the institutionalization … in our website , form one of the largest individual repertoires in Gerson-Kiwi's archive, which aimed to …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… regarding oral transmission, the open boundaries of repertoire and the consequences of migrations and other …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… and Fefer (1938) published in Kiev, share much of the repertoire Melngailis heard in the Baltic countries. It is … different than that of a tonic. At least for the folk song repertoire in the present volume, such distinctions are not … do not know how this Armenian song migrated to the Jewish repertoire, yet the very fact it appears in “copybooks …