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Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector … from Melngailis’s collection (nos. 65 and 74). Melngailis started collecting Jewish songs in 1899 in Keidan (Lithuania), … encounters are found elsewhere as well: There are Jewish-American songs about Jewish cowboys (Gottlieb 2004, 64). …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… (1908-1992) is considered one of the founders of Israeli musicology. She studied piano and musicology in Berlin, … prevented the publication of her dissertation on the art of the Italian madrigal in 1933, she emigrated to Italy … ethnological paradigms took place among a new generation of American-born scholars since the early 1950s. Numerous …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, … companion to volume 12, album 2 of the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music titled Legend of Toil and Celebration … Gila Flam from the National Library of Israel; Dr. Alex Hartov from the Dartmouth College Archive of Jewish Sound; …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… Sephardic milieu. The lyrics cover an apparently earthly topic, but do so with concealed and semi-overt … and its documentation are therefore formidable. However, musical renditions of the piyyut are rather rare and will be … circles abroad. It was already included in the early American Hebrew songster, Qovetz Shirei Tziyyon ve-Shirei …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a … kits, many of them produced in Israel. The subject of this article is the singing of the section known as the Four … Jewish Agency published in New York in 1954 on behalf of American and Canadian Jewish educators. In this publication, …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… the Composer Deborah Lynn Friedman (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played … role in dramatically shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. … set the first line of the prayer (divided into two parts) that encapsulates its main theme: Part one: שְׁמַע …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… 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 … from online resources associated with the “History of the American Cantorate” project (Slobin 1984–86). Spiro is …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… and arranged a song called (in his spelling) “Na-aleh L’artsenu – On to Our Land.” Binder indicates that this is a … provides a fascinating window into the intersections of American, Palestinian and European Zionism, mid-century … remembered for his contributions to the liturgical music of American Reform Judaism and his work on Biblical …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… section of the Jacob Michael Collection of Jewish Music at the National Sound Archives of the Israel National … a still largely unexplored treasure of Jewish Musical Americana, includes a magnificent recording of ‘Haint Iz … town of Dęblin in Poland). The second song of the suite (starting at 5:35) is no other than ‘Hag Purim, Hag Purim,’ a …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… Purim, Brothers’) is one of the most familiar songs in the American Yiddish repertoire for Purim. It has appeared in many American Jewish songsters at least since Samuel E. … Jewish songsters which reproduced Rivesman’s version, starting from Goldfarb, as mentioned at the beginning of this …