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Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… of Heinz Unger can certainly add significant insights into what the author labels “the search for Jewish meaning” in … provides the reader with numerous accounts of Unger’s so-called accomplishments, including countless flattering … allegiance to Mahler affected the way he was perceived? What links did he try to establish between Mahler’s music …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… have to be taken with some reservations. For example, what is “a common European song” is highly conjectural. … melody, a few words about the structure of the poem are called for. The Text שְׁעֵה נֶאֱסַר אֲשֶׁר נִמְסַר בְּיַד … it under the section of “Melodien in Ahavoh Rabboh.” What Avenary did not mention at all is that Idelsohn brought …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… a 78rpm record of a pizmon , a Hebrew para-liturgical hymn called “ Yom Yom Odeh ” (Every day I am grateful), which was … as captured on the author's cellphone. Back at AMAR, what had prompted the famous record to be picked out from … ten seconds of the song appear muted, my recording somewhat muffled and much less audible than before. How did this …
Moshe Attias
… a café in Haifa one day, Mwijo began to sing and this, he recalled, literally brought the unsuspecting patrons to tears. … and a lump payment for each record produced. It is unclear what exactly his relationship and financial arrangement with … Mwijo in fact marked the limits of his potential audience. What is even more remarkable is that the Moroccan audience …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… rendering in the Hebrew Bible (Genesis XXII:1–19) is somewhat brief, barely referring to the characters’ feelings and … a form also used by the sub-genre of Seliḥot piyyutim called Sheniyyah piyyutim (Weinberger 1998, 223, … from] the ʽTonus Lamentationum’ for the text ʽJesus, what agony you suffered!’”; (Idelsohn 1932, xlii). The …
Jewish Singing and Boxing in Georgian England
… by numerous guesses, many of them of the category politely called 'educated,' but not a few also of the 'wilder' variety. What Israel Adler has provided us with in Hebrew …
The Mesopotamian Theory of Music and the Ugarit Notation — a Reexamination
… years. In 1960 Anne Kilmer published two lists of so-called key-numbers or coefficients for various computations … of strings denotes “something,” but it was not yet clear what these were (for this first presentation and discussion …
Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition
… Looking for a plain definition of what is generally called 'polyphony' and leaving aside all technicalities, we …
Bernardo Feuer
… a children’s choir and a polyphonic choir, which he also called Hazomir. This “second Hazomir” began with twenty-four …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… yeini tell a story, as follows: a friend of the poet called Moshe (Moses) has invited him to a banquet. The poet … with the following note: “sing it with the known melody.” What could that melody be? A viable answer can be found in … the modern Zionist story of Kikhlot yeini . However, what about its previous “Jewish” life? The Jewish versions …