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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 … In his words, “the symmetrical bars are the musical counterpart of the constant numbers of syllables adhered to in a … already noticed some shortcomings in this text. Indeed, as part of his acerbic approach to Israeli musicology in general …
Nili Belkind
… the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from Columbia University (2014) and is an … or anchors (emergent) modes of belonging. She has published articles or book chapters on topics such as music and: urban … research projects Nili always seeks to contribute to the artists and communities that have brought her into their …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… (1908-1992) is considered one of the founders of Israeli musicology. She studied piano and musicology in Berlin, … prevented the publication of her dissertation on the art of the Italian madrigal in 1933, she emigrated to Italy … reoriented her research focus from the canon of Western art music to non-Western music, most particularly, the music …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… of the Jewish people presented to Professor Haim Beinart on the occasion of his seventieth birthday , ed. Aharon … such as seli h ot . I have studied in great detail the musical setting of this poem in Sephardic communities, … and North African versions in the article entitled “Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector … from Melngailis’s collection (nos. 65 and 74). Melngailis started collecting Jewish songs in 1899 in Keidan (Lithuania), … considered lost, were retrieved by Karnes (apparently only partially, as will be shown below) and are presented to the …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… (“customs” or “traditions”) once the printing press started to produce prayer books in rapidly increasing numbers … the liturgist who set this passage noticed that verse 15 departed too much from the pattern of the other three verses, … return to this feature later. Right now, let us move to the musical performance of the three verses. The precious Leo …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… from archives around the world offer unique vistas on past musical cultures. These findings show the extent to which … Sephardic singers of Salonica. It was still mentioned in an article in the Ladino journal El Mesajero (Salonica, 1939) … such as the transformation of the Turkish “ya yürek” (oh, heart) to “ya Yuri” (Yuri being the name of the groom) and the …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… historical knowledge while assuming a distinction between particular agencies and general historical trajectories. … interest, it also aspires to commemorate a forgotten artist. Justifiably or not, Unger did not gain international … in Unger’s history: Unger decided to “devote his life to music making” after hearing Mahler’s Lied von der Erde ; he …
Dan Deutsch
… Deutsch is currently an Azrieli postdoctoral fellow in the Musicology Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He earned … music against the backdrop of his social status as part of a Jewish minority. In his current research, he …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… obsessed with copyrights, refused permissions to third parties even to cite a few words from his lyrics. As a … early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … songs on the radio. But a little research on my own part, asking friends and acquaintances around the world (120 …