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Yehiel 'Adaki
… without receiving payment. In 1906, when Yehiel was three years old, his family moved to Sana'a. His father worked as … studied their repertoire. He had a good voice and musical hearing, as well as a good memory and perception, and he soon … was always invited to sing at weddings. 'Adaki also learned cantorate from his visits to the synagogue. In 1920 …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… Usually recognized as Iraqi, “Fog al-Nakhal” also appears in the repertoire of several Middle Eastern communities … a pre-composed light song set to a fixed meter, normally appearing as the culmination of a long improvisatory piece consisting of several sections without clear beat. The easily recognizable pasté often invites group …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… … 742 … The piyyut Shofet kol ha’aretz (‘Judge of all earth’) is a center piece of the morning service for Rosh Hashanah in the Sephardic liturgy and appears also in the Yemenite rite where it has been found since at least the early eighteenth century (see, manuscript Berlin - …
Hirsch Glik
… the age of 13, and was involved throughout his adolescent years in literary circles such as Yung Vilne (Young Vilna) … a group of Jewish partisans and SS officers in the forests near Vilna in 1943 and second, news of the Warsaw ghetto … escaped from the camp to join the partisans, but disappeared, and was presumed dead. … Poet and partisan in the …
4. Las Tablas de la Ley (The Tablets of the Law)
… Its Moroccan melody has been widely documented and also appears in the Italian Sephardic traditions of Livorno and … is by James Levy, see here ) Version 4c from Turkey is a clear example of the vicissitudes of Sephardic oral memory. … it adds the traditional blessing of the beginning of the year which, as we have seen above, is taken from the song ‘ …
Book Review: Music’s Making - The Poetry of Music; The Music of Poetry
… about it. And then also “objective issues” that you have heard from the opponents. But in this regard one can … not interest me at all. To the contrary, I would like to hear a few musical things about it. There was nothing to … to this. (Haimo and Feisst, 2016, Schoenberg’s Early Correspondence, p. 87.) Schoenberg was neither the …
Ahí, ahí, a los campos (Los campos de la boda + El novio desprendido + El peral de las peras)
… old Hispanic songs that have otherwise completely disappeared from other Spanish-speaking traditions: “From the pear tree I took a pear, and from honest people I took a daughter-in-law.” The …
Hermann Levi's shame and Parsifal's guilt:A critique of essentialism in biography and criticism
According to revisionist readings by scholars including Hartmut Zelinsky, Rolf Schneider…
Alexander L. Ringer
… Alexander L. Ringer was an American research musicologist and educator of Dutch and Polish descent. … and psychology in 1948 from the New School for Social Research and a Ph.D. of Musicology in 1955 from the City … Ringer served as chair of the musicology division for six years. After this period he then directed the school's …