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An Institute of Jewish Music in Jerusalem
… ' … We hereby appeal to all Jewish musicians and singers in Jerusalem and in Erez Israel, to … Jews of Persia and Babylonia, and to all the Jewish musicians and cantors in the entire world, from the Jews of [Western] Ashkenaz to the Jews of …
Idelsohn’s Scholarly and Literary Publications: An Annotated Bibliography
… was regarded by many as the savant and saviour of Jewish music. In 1932 on the double occasion of his fiftieth … articles concerning the man and his work from writers the world over. Germany, Holland, Palestine, England, South … that he has bestowed upon the Jew a great gift, a music of his own, hitherto undiscovered, unknown. Hence, …
Persistence and Transformation of a Sephardi - Penitential Hymn under Changing Environmental Conditions
… upon the comparison of tunes influenced by different music cultures. Idelsohn did not content himself with the … has recently been taken up by several students of Jewish music tradition. We are now in a better position than was … to Bayonne as far as to the Sephardi outposts in the New World. This is what we shall do in the present …
The Archives of the World Centre for Jewish Music in Palestine, 1936-1940, at the Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem
… The musicological activities in Israel prior to statehood are … to organize pre-statehood musicological endeavours: the 'World Centre for Jewish Music in Palestine' (WCJMP). … effective and succeeded not only to reach all parts of the world, but also to produce within Palestine many of the …
The Performance Practice of the Rig-Veda: A Musical Expression of Excited Speech
… importance and not to be separated from the text. The musician, observing the Vedic cantillation especially that … it a special place among the various kinds of musical expression of the world, and it has been the object of much research. However, …
A.Z. Idelsohn and the Study of the Traditional Pronunciations of Hebrew (Hebrew)
… well-known for his pioneering work in the field of Hebrew musicology, primarily for his recording and research of the music of the various Jewish ethnic groups, presented to the scholarly world in his monumental ten-volume Thesaurus of Hebrew …
Music in Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah in Northern Africa
… differs from those prevalent in other parts of the Jewish world; its most characteristic feature is the ritualistic … Jews … Zohar … Sixteenth (16th) Century … Kabbalah … Music in Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah in Northern Africa … …
Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… has shown in a lifetime of work, the history of Jewish music is really a set of complex, interlocking histories. … expressive system that spanned 'the old home' and 'the new world,' and that offers us today a tiny window into the … those societies. Not intending to document a soon-to-vanish world, filmmakers and film composers deployed a number …
Sounds from the Divine: Religious Musical Instruments in the Ancient Near East
… Music is an indispensable part of religious acts in most, if … all, known cultures of the ancient as well as the modern world. Musical sounds — whether created by human voice or … gods as well as demons and other creatures of intermediate worlds. Besides its function as a conveyer of information …
The Ala-Instrument: its Identification and Role
… Concerning musical instruments, we are fortunate to have many terms, … Examples of drum-making from various parts of the world are relevant, although no direct link is claimed. The … comparisons with other musical cultures from around the world must be made. In making such comparisons, no …