… Musicologist and cultural historian Assaf Shelleg … in twentieth- and twenty-first-century music, focusing on art music written by and about Jews. Prior to his … book Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History (Oxford University Press, 2014), Theological …

… הספר זוכה הפרסים Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History (הוצאת אוניברסיטת אוקספורד, 2014), כמו גם של Theological Stains: Art Music and the Zionist Project  (הוצאת אוניברסיטת אוקספורד, …

… and below each word. However, the chant also has clear musical features, with a variety of scales, motives, … observes, “Melody is not an additional element, but part and parcel of the text, inseparable from it and … ending with F going down to C does not seem to be common in Israeli Ashkenazi communities; see Ne’eman 2012, 73. The …

… legislative design. Because of the “folk” origins of its music and the re-writing of Naftali Herz Imber’s poem … Interdisciplinary Journey into the National Anthem by the Israeli pianist and music appreciation expert Astrith … of Education of Israel in 2009. This production became part of a wide public campaign by its author, presented as …

… life of those times…  Theodore Bikel    On October 2, 2014, Israeli anchor Gabi Gazit interviewed Theodore Bikel … The interview was held at the initiative of the Israeli music connoisseur and collector Dudi Patimer. Speaking live … responded simply with the epitaph found at the top of this article. Multifaceted and multidisciplinary artist Theodore …

… 3 M'nuchoh v'simchoh , arranged by Solomon Ancis for four part men's choir. New York: Transcontinental Music Corporation, 1945. Example 5 Moisei Beregovski, … music (!): J. Engel), Juedische Klaenge (Beilage zum israelitischen Familienblatt [Hamburg]), Nr. 43/23 (Mai …

… 2 Petenera … Our Song of the Month is dedicated to Sephardic music and flamenco, two traditions that crystallized in the … Sephardic communities in northern Morocco and in parts of the Ottoman Empire, maintained their Romance … songs.  Two musicians who fuse these two genres are the Israeli singer Yasmin Levy and the guitarist Baldi Olier. …

… anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk Music, the composer Solomon Rosowsky published a short … historical reasons for this striking trend. [4] But in this article I want to discuss not its actual causes but instead … Right to Left? Avraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Invention of Israeli Music,” Jewish Quarterly Review 100:3 (Summer 2010), …

… Archive.  … You can listen to all the recordings in this article as a  playlist .  The classification of traditional … tunes were reincarnated as Zionist songs, becoming Israeli folk songs and folk dances in both secular and … see below. Although Idelsohn can be credited as the first musician to introduce this melody to the Zionist repertory …

… *The following is a summary of an article by Ronit Seter, to read the full article . The term … selected versions of European Mediterranean styles in art music that Jewish composers—the founders of Israeli music, among them the Israeli Five: Paul …

… Math, History and Hebrew in a Jewish school. In 1950, as part of 'Operation Magic Carpet' that was designed to bring … Ha'ain and Ein Shemer. In school, his inclination towards music was noticed, and when he was fourteen, he … Haftaras, and sang songs of rabbi Shalom Shabazi and some Israeli songs that he knew. Following this activity, he …

… age of five and was placed with a family in the Bukharan Quarter of Jerusalem. This area of the city was inhabited by … His wife Hadassah, Brakha's beloved teacher, encouraged her musical talents, and proposed that Tzefira should sing … above, she turned to various composers from the field of Israeli 'art music', [4]  and asked them to arrange the …