(173 results found)
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 …
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 …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… such as seli h ot . I have studied in great detail the musical setting of this poem in Sephardic communities, … versions in the article entitled “Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardic Melodies of Qinot for the Ninth of … among various communities, there seems to be an underlying musical structure tying together all the documented versions …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, 1970), Hanoch Avenary set a new bar in the musicological study of the piyyut . His insights on a … [i.e. the melody of She’eh ne’esar] is borrowed from an ancient melody.” Figure 9. Canon on the tune of “She’eh …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records … conventions. The transcribers’ desire to imbue the ancient Jewish melody with contemporary decorum led them to … century. The fact that we have the transcription of such an ancient melody (even if through late and limited …
Jubal in the Middle Ages
… Mediaeval treatises on music usually begin with a series of stereotype … answers, very often in the following order: (1) Quid sit musica ; (2) unde dicetur ; (3) a quibus sit inventa . The … them that play upon the harp and the organ,' steps out of ancient, antediluvial times in Genesis IV together with his …
A.Z. Idelsohn: A Pioneer in Jewish Ethnomusicology
… of the twentieth century, the study and research of Jewish music was motivated by the belief that the music of biblical times survived in the living traditions of … which started the modern search after the true and most ancient sources of Jewish music. The beginnings of the new …
The Performance Practice of the Rig-Veda: A Musical Expression of Excited Speech
… The Veda, as is well known, is the religious lore of ancient India, crystallized during ten centuries, from about … importance and not to be separated from the text. The musician, observing the Vedic cantillation especially that … point for a more comprehensive study. … 23134 … India … Ancient … Rig-Veda … Vedic … Hebrew cantillation … Kerala … …
A.Z. Idelsohn and the Study of the Traditional Pronunciations of Hebrew (Hebrew)
… well-known for his pioneering work in the field of Hebrew musicology, primarily for his recording and research of the music of the various Jewish ethnic groups, presented to the … differentiated phonetic features which are to be considered ancient, from others, which resulted from the influence on …
Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardi Melodies of Qinot for the Ninth of Av
… of the Temple in Jerusalem) constitutes one of the most ancient musical repositories in the Sephardi liturgy. Of particular … people … Western Sephardi tradition … Sephardi melodies … Ancient … Qinot … Ninth of Av - Tish'ah BeAv … Songs of …