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Bloch: Known and Unknown
… was an outcome of a complex response to Wagnerian racial-musical theory via the intermediary of Houston Stuart … that his expression of the ‘Jewish soul’ and use of Jewish traditional elements, both refutes Wagner’s denial of Jewish … to his Jewish works. I also consider how far Bloch’s musical dialectic of Jewish particularism and universality, …
Between Israeli and Jewish in Music
… Between Israeli and Jewish in Music Chair: Jehoash Hirshberg Olivier Tourny, CNRS, … not been officially welcomed due to their specificity. The traditional status of the Jewish Ethiopian priests has not … the Moderns, by maintaining some old practices – such as traditional songs – while instituting new ones; in other …
Is Israeli Art Music Jewish?
… Studies Jerusalem Session: Between Israeli and Jewish in Music, 5.8.09 Chair: Yehoash Hirshberg Summary: While the … or more significantly, futility of defining Jewish music itself—many of the founders of Israeli art music … national project, not as a branch of Jewish music which was traditionally written in exiled communities. They failed in …
Gesture, Dance and Melody in Traditional Ashkenazi Culture
… Synagogue and Beyond, 3.8.09 Chair: Amalia Kedem Summary: Traditional Ashkenazic dance, as it had been practiced in … expressive dance movement can be correlated to a number of musical parameters involving melodic density, rhythmic … … 2009 … Walter Zev Feldman … Gesture, Dance and Melody in Traditional Ashkenazi Culture …
The Beta Israel Liturgical Music in Israel Today: Between Tradition, Norm and Creativity
… Studies Jerusalem Session: Between Israeli and Jewish in Music 5.8.09 Chair: Yehoash Hirshberg Summary: Over the past … not been officially welcomed due to their specificity. The traditional status of the Jewish Ethiopian priests has not … the Moderns, by maintaining some old practices – such as traditional songs – while instituting new ones; in other …
Contemporary Jewish Music: A New Series of the JMRC (2009)
… Contemporary Jewish Music: A New Series of the JMRC With the release of “Writing FROM Within” (Kulmus HaNefesh), the Jewish Music Research Centre inaugurates a new line of recordings … Bartók and Zoltan Kodály, the combination of field work, traditional music research and music composition was, and …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… development against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon … a precondition for the acceptance of a melody into the traditional Ashkenazi repertoire. Bibliography: Hanoch … Avenary, “The Aspects of Time and Environment in Jewish Traditional Music,” Israel Studies in Musicology, IV (1987): …
Prayer for the state
… Synagogue … Liturgical Innovation in a Nation-State: The Music of the “Prayer for the Well-being of the State of … first section includes poetic devices that are rare in the traditional Hebrew prayers of antiquity, such as a large … musical patterns that has no precise parallel in the traditional repertoire. Since no official musical version …
Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… From the upcoming release of JMRC's-Anthology of Musical Traditions in Israel: The Historical Recordings of … of Turkey In spite of his unparalleled fame as a singer and musician during his lifetime, very few details about the … in the history of the Judeo-Spanish speaking Jews. The old traditional Ottoman Jewish community ruled by rabbinical …
Hanukah Blessings
… usually performed by the head of the household according to traditional patterns. Yet, when the lighting of the candles occurred in community contexts, special musical settings were arranged. Our Song of the Month … to be an extremely stylized and rhythmicized version of the traditional Ashkenazi blessings. Between the melodies the …