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Sylvan Sholom Kalib
… The Jewish Music Research Centre mourns the loss of Cantor Sylvan … 1929 - January 15, 2025), a prominent scholar of Western music theory who was also a leading composer, arranger, and … notations of Kalib’s field work with over one hundred traditional Ashkenazic cantors and prayer leaders, they …
Leo Levi
… first scholar to devote research to the Italian Jewish oral musical traditions. However, his role in the field of Jewish ethnomusicology, and in particular in the development of … as it proved to be at the end of World War II, when traditional Jewish culture seemed forever lost. He …
Yaakov Mazor
… Studied Violin, Music Theory and Composition, at the Department of Theory, the Rubin Academy, Jerusalem. M.A. Musicology, Bar-Ilan University; M.A. thesis: The Role of Traditional Music in the Wedding of Georgian Jewish …
David de Sola Pool
… recorded several excerpts from the prayer according to the traditional melodies of the Spanish-Portuguese community. … of Israel website. (Includes a number of recordings of the traditional Spanish-Portuguese melodies) … 627 … The leading …
Yehuda Ratzaby
… suffered bereavement and deprivation. There, he learned the traditional prayers according to the local custom, and how …
Salamone Rossi
… Though much ink has been spilled reviewing the vast musical contribution of Jewish-Italian composer Salamone de … as the leader of an ensemble comprised mostly of Jewish musicians. While his first two works are dedicated to Duke … synagogue service, representing a significant break from traditional monophonic melodies for liturgy and the reading …
Aron Marko Rothmüller
… Indiana University. Rothmüller composed chamber and choral music, many based on traditional Sephardic and Ashkenazi songs as well as … (i.e. modern Hebrew) songs. As an author he published The Music of the Jew s: An Historical Appreciation (1953 and …
Yael Shai
… of the doctoral thesis: the processes of change in the traditional musical repertoire of the wedding among the Jews of Khaban, … 2001 Dr. Yael Shai was appointed as the chief supervisor of music education at the Ministry of Education. Full biography …
Amnon Shiloah
… of Aliyat Hano’ar in northern Israel where he started his musical studies. In 1947 he enrolled at the Hebrew … as well as Bible, graduating in 1951. He continued his music studies at the Jerusalem Music Academy, majoring in … as a leading authority on Arabic music theory and Jewish traditional music. Shiloah’s list of publications includes …
Simha Arom
… A French-Israeli ethnomusicologist who is recognized as a world expert on the music of central Africa, especially that of the Central … the Central African Republic. He became fascinated by the traditional music of this country, especially the vocal …