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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 … of the Binding of Isaac and was also used for additional songs in Hebrew and Yiddish, the content of which relates to …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… Studying songs for Passover offers us a rich field of inquiry into … Gila Flam from the National Library of Israel; Dr. Alex Hartov from the Dartmouth College Archive of Jewish Sound; Dr. Michael Lukin …
Moshe Attias
… 30, 2020. He came, as do many Moroccan Jewish performing artists and composers, from a family of musicians going back … that as a token of gratitude, Ben Haroush left him his songbooks, which had also been handed down to him. The … 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 the Mandel … musician ('Avodot Afar'). His dissertation, 'The Science of Song in 'Pre-Academic' Israeli Musicology and the Problem of … 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
… Our song of the month concerns a Sephardic song commonly sung on … 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 We will evaluate these common traits and … here are drawn from Edwin Seroussi’s extensive unpublished article in Spanish, Nuestro Señor Elohenu/Adonay hu Elohenu: …
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 … , a Hebrew piece by composer Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti (1730-after 1794). Arguing against writers who … arranged as a mini-cantata. We titled this cantata “Song for the Inauguration of the Portuguese Synagogue” …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… I use this expression to highlight its centrality to this article as well as to anticipate my focus on the record’s … and poetic texts with melodies from pre-existing popular songs, a practice with roots in the sixteenth century that … who was Rafoul Tabbach? The Biography of a Recording This article is the initial result of my attempts to answer these …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… structure [that] gives it the stamp of the common European song.” Melody emerges in this case from the poetic form and … 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 …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… 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 … recorded items (each one comprising several units, such as songs and dialogues), which, although already digitized and …
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 … and North African versions in the article entitled “Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient …