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Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… and distributers. In great public expressions of this strange Jewish self-exclusion (such as the famous plot of The … it as the music of a people other than themselves? What a strange and counterfactual conceit. Looking over the enormous … undergone conversions to Blackness. This is famously the strange case of clarinetist and saxophonist Mezz Mezzrow, a …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… “Pesah a la mano” without attribution to its author have ranged from the New England Conservatory in Boston to a …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… arts and sciences … deeply informed books that explore the range and depth of the Jewish experience….” Kaplan, no more …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… ethnomusicologist Nikolai Kaufmann collected the song and arranged it for choir, in the spirit of the modernist approach … Bulgarian school of composition. His modern polyphonic arrangement was recorded by the choir “Voices of Vitiz” (of …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… ). One song ( Schlof mein Kind , no. 33) is shown in an arrangement of a different melody (although the melody … lullaby. It appears in Melngailis’s collection in an arrangement for voice and piano. Taking his cue from Idelsohn, … the Yiddish text is set to a different tune in a choral arrangement by E. Scheinin. Karnes points out that there is …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… many hours between the years 1966 and 1972, covering a wide range of subjects, mostly (but not only) musical. This …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… In the original piece, the melody of “She’eh ne’esar” is arranged as a canon for four voices. A footnote to this …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… repertoires associated with Cairo’s musical theater (Lagrange 1996, 69-108; Racy 2003, 103; Shannon 2006, 59-61) [2] … us as chosen]. Here, Tabbach gradually moves to a higher range of the maqam, characterized by the more melismatic … with qanuns, kamanjahs, buzuqs, riqqs, and carefully arranged ʿuds. While their inside labels revealed the places …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… were devoid of instrumental accompaniment or polyphonic arrangement. Yet, the harmonic background of these solo pieces … artistic director of the Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra , arranged at my request several of these additional Portuguese … of Israel (Ms. 8o Mus. 2). On July 21, 2002, these arrangements were performed in the opening concert of the …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… these common traits and distinctive qualities among a wide range of sources, both written and recorded, in order to … in Florence, 1715. This appendix of entries, “composed or arranged for every occasion…” by Meldola, includes piyyutim …