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Soothing Lyres and epôidai: Music Therapy and the Cases of Orpheus, Empedocles and David
… The psychagogic efficacy of music, namely its power to act on the soul in such a way as … in ancient Greek thought on a likeness between soul and musical harmony. This idea involves also a “harmonious” … order distinguishing human physis as being a part of the world order ( kosmos ), as it is possible to …
Ancient Music in the Modern Classroom
… The French musicologist Jacques Chailley devoted his professional career to the revival of medieval music and ancient theater and to the study of Greek music. … first nor the last musicologist to treat ancient music as part of a general music-history survey. Especially prominent …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… 2000, 218–222; Guez-Avigal 2009, 159–166; Kartun-Blum 2013). Likewise, the Binding of Isaac has constituted a common motif in works of art among Jews throughout the ages (Sabar 2009, 9–27). In … century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, … Gila Flam from the National Library of Israel; Dr. Alex Hartov from the Dartmouth College Archive of Jewish Sound; Dr. Michael Lukin …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent … 30, 2020. He came, as do many Moroccan Jewish performing artists and composers, from a family of musicians going back … from his earlier years when he could only remember parts of songs – that Mwijo maintained the honorific title of …
Yonatan Turgeman
… PhD candidate in the Hebrew University Musicology Department, a fellow of the PhD Honors Program in … century up until the formation of the first Musicology departments in the 1960's. His research is dedicated to issues …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… melodic commonalities, unite the sources examined in this article. We will evaluate these common traits and … here are drawn from Edwin Seroussi’s extensive unpublished article in Spanish, Nuestro Señor Elohenu/Adonay hu Elohenu: … in sections according to the different Turkish makam s (musical modes), titled Shirei Israel be-eretz ha-qedem …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… collector Eduard Birnbaum of Königsberg published a short article modestly titled “Unsere erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , … , a Hebrew piece by composer Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti (1730-after 1794). Arguing against writers who …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone … I use this expression to highlight its centrality to this article as well as to anticipate my focus on the record’s … who was Rafoul Tabbach? The Biography of a Recording This article is the initial result of my attempts to answer these …
Clara Wenz
… Clara Wenz is an ethnomusicologist specializing in Middle Eastern music, music and sound studies, political … SOAS, 2015-2019 Employment Senior Teaching Fellow, Music Department, SOAS, London, 2018-2019 Education PhD in …