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Musical Practices and Instruments in Late Bronze Age Ugarit (Syria)
… provides a wide range of evidence for the reconstruction of musical practice during the Late Bronze Age, at the time of … Cultural associations with the eastern Mediterranean world may also be derived from it. Dated to the last … in the span of time between third-millennium Sumer and the world of the Bible in the first millennium. The temptation …
Aristophanes’ Phrynichos and the Orientalizing Musical Pattern
… archaic Athens felt that they belonged to the vast Ionian world — the Solonian Iaovia , which included East Ionia, … (Kurke 1992: 103). … 23468 … Aristophanes … Phrynichos … Music history … Ancient music … Athens … Ancient Greece … Greece … Aristophanes’ …
Soothing Lyres and epôidai: Music Therapy and the Cases of Orpheus, Empedocles and David
… The psychagogic efficacy of music, namely its power to act on the soul in such a way as … in ancient Greek thought on a likeness between soul and musical harmony. This idea involves also a “harmonious” … order distinguishing human physis as being a part of the world order ( kosmos ), as it is possible to notice at least …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records … nineteenth century, and remained popular until the Second World War (Schleifer 1996). Yet it appears that some … et al. 1996; Langer 1998, 182–85) and few synagogues in the world today recite ‘Akedah piyyutim , let alone according to …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, … and its reception both in the Yiddish-speaking world as well as in the modern Hebrew song repertoire in the … congregations and educational institutions in the USA after World War II muted the original socialist messages and …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… modestly titled “Unsere erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , … held at the Hebrew University, on the occasion of the World Congress of Jewish Music on August 3, 1978, which … and published by Adler, spread to the four corners of the world. Moreover, the discovery (also by Adler) of the Hebrew …
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 … “renaissance” that characterized the Arab-Ottoman world during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. In … centers of the region. In Aleppo, as elsewhere in the Arab world during the Nahda era, Jewish musicians played an …
Clara Wenz
… Clara Wenz is an ethnomusicologist specializing in Middle Eastern music, music and … Berlin 4-5 April 2019. “Tarab in Crisis, Samples of a New World: The Music of Hello Psychaleppo”, ICTM Study Group for the Music in the Arab World Symposium, Cairo Egypt, 7-10 January 2019. “Music, …
Nili Belkind
… the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from Columbia University (2014) and is an ethnomusicologist specializing in the Middle East—with a special … working in the US-based music industry. She worked as a world, Latin and reggae music product manager for Virgin …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… (1908-1992) is considered one of the founders of Israeli musicology. She studied piano and musicology in Berlin, … but also helped to reformulate German musicology after World War II. The latter contribution was mainly made … a growing network of colleagues and peers from around the world. In many cases, those who formed part of this network …