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Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardi Melodies of Qinot for the Ninth of Av
… Temple in Jerusalem) constitutes one of the most ancient musical repositories in the Sephardi liturgy. Of particular musical richness are the qinot of the Sephardi communities …
The Training of Hazzanim in Nineteenth-Century Germany
… change in the process by which a hazzan learned his art. The increasing phenomenon since the later eighteenth … one generation to the next, from a hazzan skilled in the musical tradition to a young novice eager to learn, still … the oral transmission of synagogue chant. However, starting in the 1830s and 1840s, there occurred in Germany a …
To Please Both the Ear and the Eye: Moses Mendelssohn, Equal Temperament and the Delian Problem
… Historisch-Kritischen Beyträgen zur Aufnahme der Musik (Part 2, pp. 95-109) an essay giving a geometrical … … Octave division … Tuning systems … Mendelssohn … Music theory … Music history … To Please Both the Ear and the Eye: Moses …
Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… has shown in a lifetime of work, the history of Jewish music is really a set of complex, interlocking histories. … of a given Jewish community and time in terms of its musical life. One type of situation, which I … history,' arises from music created for a particular moment that suddenly passes due to the turbulence …
A Brief Account of the Development of the Field of Music Archaeology
… The Twelfth Congress of the International Musicological Society was held at the University of … for the occasion on the topic “Music and Archaeology.” The participants in this group were Berkeley Professors Richard … Cajsa Lund (Sweden) and Liang Ming-Yueh (China). All the participants were eager to hear the views held by music …
Sounds from the Divine: Religious Musical Instruments in the Ancient Near East
… Music is an indispensable part of religious acts in most, if … known cultures of the ancient as well as the modern world. Musical sounds — whether created by human voice or …
The Balaĝ Instrument and its Role in the Cult of Ancient Mesopotamia
… The balaĝ instrument played an important part in ancient Mesopotamian religion, but its identification … scholars understood the term balaĝ as a general word for musical instruments (Hartmann 1960: 57) or for stringed instruments (Krispijn …
The Ala-Instrument: its Identification and Role
… Concerning musical instruments, we are fortunate to have many terms, … Galpin’s view has been followed by Sachs 1940: 74ff.; Hartmann 1960: 79–82; Spycket 1972: 179–180; Marcuse 1975: … Gabbay 2007: 59 and Ziegler 2007: 74. The purpose of this article is to confirm this identification with a more …
Aristophanes’ Phrynichos and the Orientalizing Musical Pattern
… by Kurke 1992: 95). Linen chitons and golden crickets were part of a luxurious Eastern clothing adopted by noblemen to … to democratic; the Orient, contrasted with the isonomic Spartan model, was connoted with stereotypes of cowardice and … (Kurke 1992: 103). … 23468 … Aristophanes … Phrynichos … Music history … Ancient music … Athens … Ancient Greece … …
Aspects of Music Culture in the Land of Israel during the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Periods: Sepphoris as a Case Study
… years of Hellenistic culture, manifested in language, art, music, cult and thought. Yet, despite and alongside the … the Land of Israel. Based on the abundance of music-related artifacts found, this paper examines aspects of …