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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 … stored in the shelves of the Lebanese Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research (AMAR). Located in the little … the Nahda period and/or the liturgical practices of Middle Eastern Jews. While everyone from the Jewish side was …
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, when new forms of expressing Jewishness through music challenged the normative status of traditions of old. … as the 1880s, America began exporting Yiddish songs back to Eastern Europe. Political tactics and pamphlets pioneered by …
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 … Such remarks provide little information concerning the music itself, yet they offer valuable insights for the … rite ( minhag ’Ashkenaz ); we have not discovered any Eastern Ashkenazi ( minhag Polin and minhag Lita ) …
Orality as Religious Ideal: The Music of East-European Jewish Prayer
… As a consequence of this attitude, great compositions of music - such as those of Beethoven - were often imagined as … approximations of the original idea. … 9479 … Orality … Eastern Europe … Prayer … Jewish Prayer … Jewish … Jewish music … Religious music … Orality as Religious Ideal: The …
Mesopotamian Music Theory Since 1977
… in this volume, discusses the first five Mesopotamian music theory texts that had been published by 1977, … a significant impact on our understanding of ancient Near Eastern music theory and practice. I discussed the first five …
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 … of Syria and Palestine. Cultural associations with the eastern Mediterranean world may also be derived from it. … light upon the poorly known history of ancient Near Eastern music in the span of time between third-millennium Sumer and …
Aristophanes’ Phrynichos and the Orientalizing Musical Pattern
… increasing awareness of archaic Athens’ receptivity to the Eastern lifestyle and culture. The insistence of scholars on … (Kurke 1992: 103). … 23468 … Aristophanes … Phrynichos … Music history … Ancient music … Athens … Ancient Greece … Greece … Aristophanes’ …
Aspects of Music Culture in the Land of Israel during the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Periods: Sepphoris as a Case Study
… years of Hellenistic culture, manifested in language, art, music, cult and thought. Yet, despite and alongside the … a continuum is noted, especially pertaining to the earlier Eastern or local traditions. One of the basic assumptions of … time offers an opportunity to examine the development of music culture in a region that was inhabited by people of …
Between Tradition and Modernity
… Maier Levi of Esslingen is volume 12 of the JMRC's Yuval Music Series. The new production comprises 179 liturgical … book: “Maier Levi bequeathed to posterity a manuscript of musical scores, a ‘cantorial compendium,’ that must be … event) and Prof. Edwin Seroussi. … Review about book in Musica Judaica Online Reviews … 3 … 3 … 10 … 38840 … 470 … …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… with them as they migrated, including literary traditions, musical forms and the Judeo-Spanish language, Ladino. The Jewish musical life that developed in Saloniki consisted of these … traditions in the greater Mediterranean and Middle-Eastern world, became blended to a degree with local …