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Towards an Interdisciplinary Study of Jewish Oral Traditions
… In this article we propose to discuss and illustrate the need for … teams of specialists in different disciplines. The first part of this paper will discuss the state of research with … framework and tools for the use of linguists, historians, musicologists, anthropologists, and others. … 9431 … Oral …
Plurivocality in the Liturgical Music of the Jews of San‘a (Yemen)
… Musicologists today agree that the traditional music of the Yemenite Jews has unique stylistic … salient characteristics of Yemenite Jewish music. In this article we will attempt to define the structure of this …
Towards a Typology of the Judeo-Spanish Folksong: Gerineldo and the Romance Model
… at the very least, two components, text and music, an interdisciplinary approach is necessary in order … of the Judeo-Spanish folksong: literary, musical, linguistic and performance. … Ladino, Ladino - … Alexander-Frizer … Isaac Benabu … Yaacov Ghelman … Ora Schwartwald …
A Hassidic Ritual Dance: The Mitsve Tants in Jerusalemite Weddings
… of the ceremony in its totality, and focus in particular on the structural analysis of its musical and textual aspects. … Hasidic … Hasidim … Hasidic Music … 9565 … 10112 … Hassidic … Hassidim … Hassidic music …
Orality as Religious Ideal: The Music of East-European Jewish Prayer
… a consequence of German Romantic aesthetics, the study of art has looked upon the process of copying with an … German Romantics, the use of any pre-existent element in an artwork precluded the presence of genius; in a sense, … As a consequence of this attitude, great compositions of music - such as those of Beethoven - were often imagined as …
Music in Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah in Northern Africa
… of this canonization differs from those prevalent in other parts of the Jewish world; its most characteristic feature is … Jews … Zohar … Sixteenth (16th) Century … Kabbalah … Music in Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah in Northern Africa … …
Salamone Rossi as a Composer of "Hebrew" Music
… of Solomon,' marks a milestone in the history of sacred music as the first and, until the nineteenth century, … only collection of religious works by a Jewish composer of art music. They were written for various combinations of … a rabbinical responsum to a query about the legitimacy of art music in the synagogue, followed by five statements of …
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 …