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Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… human and non-human mediators, namely, sound, voice, instruments, devices, notation, venues, ideas, discourses, … Aleppian ʿud-maker Ibrahim Sukkar. How had he brought these instruments into Israel? That, he assured me, remained his … poetic text of “ Yom Yom Odeh ” or the people and musical instruments that have performed it in the past), with each …
Moshe Attias
The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent passing of Cheikh…

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… , inspired by Idelsohn’s table, a medieval Hispano-Arabic ancient pedigree by linking it to the Spanish folksong … speculations in order to find a more genuinely “Jewish” or “ancient” origin for the tune. We shall examine below the … piyyut with its melody appears in the early collection The Ancient Melodies of the Liturgy of the Spanish and …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics:…
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… melodies and textual variations. Text Sources The text is ancient and appears in a Cairo Geniza manuscript (T-S … ha-navi havenah' . [4] It is worth noting that these ancient sources do not explicitly attribute the piyyut to R. … Ottoman/Iraqi Melody This Ottoman/Iraqi melody is likely ancient. It was recorded by Jewish artists from the East in …