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Moshe Attias
… of songs inherited from family tradition and his unique voice, launched Cheikh Mwijo’s full-time career in the music … and mercurial politicians in Israel, and Mwijo, the popular voice of the community in the Jewish state. In the year …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… for a simple reason: all the music in them is for one voice only. These sources are the manuals of the Amsterdam …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… non-material, human and non-human mediators, namely, sound, voice, instruments, devices, notation, venues, ideas, … like Ya ʿ ayni [O my eye!] in Arabic. While adding a second voice may possibly have been an attempt at evoking the … of Hebrew, they not only identified Rafoul Tabbach’s voice as “old style [ uslub qadim ]”, but discerned in it an …
Clara Wenz
… Cairo Egypt, 7-10 January 2019. “Music, Religion and Voice on the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Border” (with Dr. Ilana …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Eric Werner, while discussing 'She'eh ne'esar' in his A Voice Still Heard: The Sacred Song of the Ashkenazic Jews … pp. 19-21). Levinsky included in his book a partial one-voice version of this piece. In the original piece, the … melody of “She’eh ne’esar” is arranged as a canon for four voices. A footnote to this composition states that “the …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… on radio programs and among academic circles. His pleasant voice and extraordinary memory turned him into a major …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… It appears in Melngailis’s collection in an arrangement for voice and piano. Taking his cue from Idelsohn, Karnes notes …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… verse of Psalm 28 that is added in oral tradition) for four voices is a testimony of the fact that in the minhag … of words in each repetition of this pledge of the praying voice (the community of Israel). He accomplished that by … the musical phrases as they appear in one of the four voices of Rossi’s work to correspond to the order of the …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… modern polyphonic arrangement was recorded by the choir “Voices of Vitiz” (of the Bulgarian Academy for Performing … Rhodes . New York: Sepher-Hermon Press, 1987. Bunis, David. Voices from Jewish Salonika: Selections from the Judezmo …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… sort of standard ethnic comedy number, and Berlin’s reedy voice is recognizable thanks to his later successes. The …