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Abraham Salman
… the Middle East. Blind from the age of two, he studied music as a child in Baghdad’s school for blind Jewish … in the 1920s and many of the students who showed musical talent were taught to become musicians in order to secure their livelihood. Salman …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… the earliest surviving specimens of Middle Eastern Jewish musical traditions. By nature of the technological … musical traditions considered to have preserved traces of ancient Jewish practices. Thus, the bulk of the present … perceived by scholars such as Idelsohn and Lurie as “ancient.” The rest of the recordings are from Aleppo (5) and …
An Ashkenazi version of “Ehad mi yode’a” in…Arabic
… remarks refer to the two main sharqi versions documented musically, the ones from the ancient cities of Aleppo (Syria) and Baghdad (Iraq). The … their brethren from the lands of Islam in Palestine had musical ramifications that are still to be studied. The …
Yuval - Studies of the Jewish Music Research Center, vol. 8 - Music in Antiquity - The Near East and the Mediterranean
… Music was one component of the cultural continuum that developed in the contiguous civilizations of the ancient Near East and of Greece and Rome. This book covers … an updated scholarly assessment of the rich soundscapes of ancient civilizations. … 1 … 38858 … Berlin, Boston; …
El Jiwneh Hagalil (Lied der galilaischen Arbeiter) – God will Build the Galilee (Galilee Worker’s Song)
… An ancient piyut [liturgical song] transformed into a Zionist … 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 …
Moshe Havusha
… in Jerusalem’s Beit Israel neighborhood. He absorbed the ancient Iraqi traditions of prayer and piyyutim from his … traditions are based on both Syrian (“Halabi”) and Egyptian musical styles. Today, Havusha, who still lives in the Beit … He sees himself as one of those who are preserving the ancient art of traditional payytanut and passing on the …
Az yashir Moshe (Song of the Sea; Exodus 15) (2 versions)
… two versions of the first three verses of this undoubtedly ancient melody. They will, we hope, provide an adequate idea …
Yevarekhekha
… outside Israel also follow this custom). Each word of this ancient blessing is first sung by the hazzan and then …
Shema' qoli
… especially in North Africa. This similarity shows the ancient pedigree of some items in the High Holiday musical repertoire of the Western Sephardi liturgy (compare …
Lekh le-shalom geshem
… mark the passing from the winter to the summer season. This ancient melody from Amsterdam and London bears a similarity …