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The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… Cod. Parm. 1912 (De Rossi 697), which is dated to the 15 th century in Germany or France. The song is in fol. 21a-b and … and its documentation are therefore formidable. However, musical renditions of the piyyut are rather rare and will be … yeini has been documented since the beginning of the twentieth century in Palestine or in connection to Zionist …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… with them as they migrated, including literary traditions, musical forms and the Judeo-Spanish language, Ladino. The … Incendio de Saloniki is considered to be one of a number of twentieth-century coplas , a form that offers poetic commentary on …
Self-Revelation and the Law - Arnold Schoenberg in his Religious Works
… to Josef Rufer on June 13, 1951: 'In Grove's Dictionary of Music there is quite a good article that includes a … in that it brings the artist in. That's late-19 th -century stuff, but not me. The subject matter and the … … 10562 … Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951 … Schoenberg … Twentieth (20th) Century … 20th (Twentieth) Century … …
The Announcement of the Institute of Jewish Music in Jerusalem by A.Z. Idelsohn and S.Z. Rivlin in 1910
… From the beginning of the twentieth century onwards, efforts were made, in various countries and … to institutionalize the 'fostering and study of Jewish music.' Roughly parallel, in time and place, were certain …
A.Z. Idelsohn: A Pioneer in Jewish Ethnomusicology
… ' … In the beginning of the twentieth century, the study and research of Jewish music was motivated by the belief that the music of biblical …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… Ashkenazic diaspora center that emerged during the tenth century in present day southern Germany and northern France. … century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records … in the Western Ashkenazi rite during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and most likely prior to that. While it …
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 … the Arab-Ottoman world during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. In musical terms, the Nahda is associated with the …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector … practice was well established in Germany, but almost half a century before the first collection of folk song texts in … appears “in only one published collection from the early twentieth century” (Ginzburg and Marek 1901), this source …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… from archives around the world offer unique vistas on past musical cultures. These findings show the extent to which repertoires of traditional music have evolved in the century or more since commercial recordings became a … the modernist approach to folk songs characteristic of the twentieth-century Bulgarian school of composition. His …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … of human experience within the limits sanctified by mid-twentieth century middle USA. Philip Roth, in his Operation Shylock , …