… to dance. Its origin is in the Moldavian and Rumanian music. The Zoock has well entered the klezmer repertoire, … carry the names of famous klezmer players. And although the musical essence for these pieces were indeed influenced by … constant modal fluidity between A freygish and A gypsy or “oriental” (A freygish with an additional augmented second …

… Jewish tune adapted from Idelsohn’s Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Music (1923b: 140, no. 193) is an unexpected turn after four … some of Idelsohn’s ideas related to the antiquity of the music of the Yemenite and Babylonian Jews were echoed in …

… content of his album. El jiwneh Hagalil answered both the musical and pedagogical requirements of this album. … ( ahava raba ) mode, El jiwneh Hagalil offers a contrasting musical symbol signifying the modern Jewish national rebirth … of the augmented second colors the melody in distinguished oriental style. See the archival recordings at the National …

… the earliest surviving specimens of Middle Eastern Jewish musical traditions. By nature of the technological … here, and also to collect melodies [“neginot”] from the Oriental Jews (such as Yemenites, Maghrebis, and Persians, … recordings (August 1, 1913) Lurie encountered the only "non-Oriental" Jew, Yaacov, a carpenter (plotnik) from the …

… Israel with his family at age ten. His father came from a musical family related to the renowned Moroccan singer and composer Sami Elmagribi.  The love of music in his household was evident through the constant … instruction in classical guitar, flamenco, classical and oriental piano, oud, and Kamanga violin. He also worked with …

… of the maqam , wrote Na‘im Twayna in his series on Iraqi musicians in Al-Anba’ newspaper (June 30, 1978).  It is … , read   The Urban Repertoire of Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel: Instrumental  Improvisation … Music Broadcast Ensemble … Israel Broadcast Authority’s Oriental music orchestra … Salim Shibith (Salim Ha-Cohen) … …

… the Middle East. Blind from the age of two, he studied music as a child in Baghdad’s school for blind Jewish … was a prominent member of the Israel Broadcast Authority’s Oriental music orchestra until his retirement in the late … 1984 take on the then-emerging genre of Israeli 'Oriental' pop ( musika mizrahit ; aka Mediterranean Israeli …

… occupations out of necessity. Wrote a manuscript on Iraqi music theory but was discouraged by lack of recognition for … both recorded by IBA in 1970. Articles: Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited  by Esther Warkov.   … … al-Amari … Iraqi Broadcasting Ensemble in Baghdad … Oriental Music Orchestra … oud player … nay player … Yaqub …

… “ Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan Jewish Musical Map .” This extract is accompanied by the recordings … in that article. Research of Moroccan Jewish religious music has been largely, if not exclusively, dominated by the … to the diasporic Jewish commonwealth of Sephardic and Oriental pedigree and, to a certain measure, to modern …

… means of communication capable of surmounting estrangement. Music and music making was an area of cultural expression in … David Avisar to the board of the Association for the Hebrew Oriental Song Ezra Aharon (“Azuri”): Report on a reception by the Association for Oriental Hebrew Song Ezra Aharon (“Azuri”): Report of the …

… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of … and the Iraqi musicians who joined the state-supported Oriental orchestra were those already familiar with the … occurred outside the formal auspices of the IBA’s Oriental orchestra, which did not provide spaces for …

… a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector … Meir Shimon Geshuri argued that “Our music must remain Oriental in character, since we were an Oriental people in the Land of Israel” (Geshuri 1943). A …