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The Reliability of Oral Transmission: The Case of Samaritan Music
… concerning the processes of oral transmission of musical culture, the selection of informants in … so far- to vary from culture to culture. Thus the starting point for the study of an oral musical tradition must … of the potential network of cultural transmission within a particular society. … 9525 … Oral tradition … Oral …

The Hasidic Dance-Niggûn - A Study Collection and its Classificatory Analysis
… In our article on Hasidic music we described the problem of the definition of the … a systematic description of the hasidic repertoire or even part of it.' The present study is a first step towards the …

“‘Ên Kol"- Commentaire hébraïque de Šem Tov ibn Šaprût sur le Canon d’Avicenne
… est la traduction annotée d'un passage relative à la nature musicale du pouls tiré du commentaire hébraïque de Sem Tov … mais parmi les cents ceuvres qu'il a écrites, deux en particulier l'ont rehdu célèbre à travers l'orient et …

The Influence of Choral Elements on the Formation and Development of the Piyyût Genres (Hebrew)
… ' … In the Talmudic period the vocal participation of the congregation in the prayers was minimal. … efforts of the authorities to have the congregation participate in the service and to reduce the exclusive and … … Piyyutim … Hymns … Choral … Choir … Choirs … Choral music … Jewish music … The Influence of Choral Elements on …

A Jewish Sufi on the Influence of Music
… authors during the mediaeval period on the subject of music, a fair deal of information concerning attitudes towards this art can be gleaned from works of a more general nature. In … prove to be a rich source for this kind of speculation, particularly in connection with the 'ethical' and therapeutic …

Eduard Birnbaum - a Bibliography
… scholarly work is well known to every student of Jewish music. I was privileged to belong to the team that … sources: The bibliography by Eric Werner appended to his article on the Birnbaum collection of Jewish music (see item … of Jewish music (New York, 1951). A further list of articles found in the course of personal research and not …

The Musical Realization of Biblical Cantillation Symbols (te‘amîm) in the Jewish Yemenite Tradition
… which the biblical recitation is a central liturgical part; (b) the traditional study-sessions of biblical … The aim of this paper is to present the repertory of the musical renditions of the Pentateuch and to investigate the relationships between the te’amim and their musical realization within these three social contexts. … …

The Musical Passage in Ibn Ezra's "Book of the Garden"
… born in 1055 in Granada and died after 1135. He refers to music in many of his poems, mainly those describing … wine-drinking sessions; he also deals with the theory of music in two of his books: the book on poetic art, Kitab almuhadarah wa' lmudakarah ('Book of …

Notes on Bukharan Music in Israel
… trip to Israel in May-June 1971. Having specialized in the music of Afghanistan and Soviet Central Asia, I was … of finding survivals of Bukharan traditions in Israel, particularly in the area of secular music. This interest was … the scope of the inquiry was limited by a serious dearth of musicians among the Israeli Bukharans, the data …

Collectanea Concerning Music in the Hebrew Manuscript London, British Library, Or. 10878 (Hebrew)
… Three fragments of musical theory and of speculations on music, collected by an anonymous Jewish scribe (probably … of sounds by musical instruments, the author calls the art of music the foremost among the (four) mathematical …