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70. El barón despreciado ( La Gloria)
… One of the most well-known modern Ladino songs in Western European style. It was also recorded twice by Haim Effendi , …
El Shokhen Shamayim - A Recorded Pearl of Andalusian Hebrew Music from Algeria Recovered
… between Jews and Muslims, between Jews from the Eastern and Western Mediterranean, and between Maghrebi and colonial Europeans, this recording brings to life a unique sonic … Jewish life in Algeria and the weakening of the venerable Western Algerian Hebrew Andalusian repertoire. El shokhen …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… between vocal and instrumental repertoires of the Eastern European Jewish tradition. Figure 5: Version of the nign … traits that are common to the Hassidic repertoire from Western Ukraine: Slow development of the melodic contour. … to a period of crystallization prior to the penetration of Western tonal thinking (expressed mostly in chordal melodic …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… World War II, investigating these practices within a broad European cultural context. The synagogue is conceived not … this study will also challenge the binary construct of Western and Eastern Ashkenaz that has been criticized in … of Jewish studies. The German model spread well beyond Western Europe, becoming the inspiration for the music of …
Moshe Cordova
… was also known as Kal de los Francos (Synagogue of the Europeans) since at least the late 1910s. It was founded by … for this purpose and transcribed some of his pieces in Western musical notation. Elnadav carried Cordova’s legacy …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… association reoriented her research focus from the canon of Western art music to non-Western music, most particularly, the music of religious and … para-liturgical and non-religious music of the non-European Jewish communities whose members relocated to …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… symmetric structure [that] gives it the stamp of the common European song.” Melody emerges in this case from the poetic … Hamnazeah , 1898, no. 66 Avenary mentioned that the “Western” melody, i.e. Sulzer’s, is similar to German folk … Let’s note here that Idelsohn’s comparative approach of Western Ashkenazi metric melodies such as “She’eh ne’esar” …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… rather unique (from the Jewish perspective of the period) Western musical taste of the small but affluent Sephardic … a renewed interest in written music sources of historical European Jewish communities. Driven by a … Jewish music in Europe which would resonate with mainstream Western music history, Adler toured post-war Europe in a …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… and cultural aspects of Jewish existence in trans-alpine Europe and appear to explain the narrative’s major role in … Issac in various ways. Ashkenazi Jews did not employ Western notation until the late eighteenth century and … of Jews within the Ashkenazi realm became proficient in Western music notation, enabling them to record Jewish …

Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition
… civilizations, and even more developed ones outside Europe had remained, apparently, in this original state of … … Monophony … Jewish … Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition … Edith (Esther) Gerson …