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Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… available to this date. Yet, a full appreciation of its contents in the wider context of Hasidic music research is a … essay, focusing on Nign no. 3, shows the explanatory potential that each item in Beregovski's collection has when … of the nign , coinciding with the first appearance of the sixth and seventh degrees of the melody’s ambitus, the …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… particularly the organ was a subject that resulted in extensive discussions. Finally, these three components … during the crucial, transformative 19 th century, with attention to concepts such as the “religion of art music” and … in Ashkenazi synagogue music. The project consists of six stages, each deploying its own methodology: Establishing …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… Stutschewsky (1891-1982) we are glad to launch the sixth volume in the Contemporary Jewish Music series, 13 … an online world-premiere recording of Stutschewsky’s forgotten work, by cellist and researcher Racheli Galay and … of this work, musical analysis of the composition, and an extensive biographical article. Racheli Galay , cello Amit …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… (then part of the Ottoman Empire) in the last third of the sixteenth century, Gallego arrived in Amsterdam around 1614, … religious Hebrew song, which had developed starting in the sixteenth century in the Ottoman Empire. “Purim, Purim, … on YouTube just two days (!) before these lines were written. “Pesah a la mano” shows also the porosity between …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor: Heinz Unger and His Search for Jewish … Worms (1980 [1976]) — which explores popular culture in sixteenth-century Italy through the eyes of a common miller … modernism and, following the revival of his oeuvre in the sixties, has also come to embody tropes like the …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… even though its opening and overall structure and content patently belongs to the same class. Apparently, the liturgist … verses he selected and by their serial growth from five, to six and to seven words. When exactly these verses entered …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics makes public a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician … have it in their harmonization. Among the remaining sixteen songs in minor, the harmonization of the final … preference. Commentaries to the songs The collection has sixty unaccompanied melodies, numbered 1–64 (four items …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… in relation to the Ninth of Av, but also to other penitential liturgies, such as seli h ot . I have studied in … despair to seek peace and redemption. The poem consists of six stanzas of four lines each: the first three lines … long verses are divided into two hemistiches of five and six syllables respectively, numbered for the sake of easy …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… texts he selected was the seli h a “She’eh ne’esar,” a penitential hymn (Avenary debatably defines it as an “elegy,” … with differing number of lines (four, five, five, and six respectively) with the acrostic Sh-L-M-H. While all the … to the “immigration of Jews from Ashkenaz to Poland in the sixteenth century,” is precarious. Generalizations based on …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… repertoires. [3] Moreover, synagogue cantors, ḥazzanim, often tended to structure new compositions of (para)liturgical … pre-existing popular songs, a practice with roots in the sixteenth century that continues amongst Syrian Jews today … he was leading the Iraqi delegation which was composed of six Jewish musicians and one Muslim vocalist, Muhammad …