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Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… famous song Hava Nogilo (no. 53). This melody has three parts. In terms of harmonic minor, two sections end on the … it ends with the descending tetrachord on this scale and starts with an arpeggio on the dominant of the harmonic minor, …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… “Voices of Vitiz” (of the Bulgarian Academy for Performing Arts) conducted by Roumen Tsonev in the CD Jewish Songs from Bulgaria . The song itself starts at 00:30, after a theatrical introduction. The Turkish …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… upon [inter alia] … cultural and economic life and the arts and sciences … deeply informed books that explore the …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… pianist Willie “The Lion” Smith, an African-American, starts an enthusiastic conversation with bandleader Artie Shaw … book is organized chronologically and by theme into three parts. Part I, “Becoming American”, discusses the roots of …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… on these works will be heard in your homes and in your hearts, and that the voices of the past will assist today to … contextualization of the recordings. At the same time, parts of the documentary collection have emerged legally in …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… and Identity Among Young Ethiopians in Israel.” Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… and that Hungarian hassidim transmitted it to their counterparts after immigration (additions in brackets are ours): …
Jeff Klepper
… NFTY summer camps. At those camps, he started to compose parts of the prayer by himself. Klepper was ordained as a …
El Shokhen Shamayim - A Recorded Pearl of Andalusian Hebrew Music from Algeria Recovered
… While the refrain in the Genizah and Eastern versions starts with 'Lekha odkha beniv safa' (You I will praise with … Maya mode, the refrain’s melodic movement and rhythm departs from recognizable patterns of Western Algerian music. …
The Idelsohn Project
… Nagila” was consciously designed to conscript Jewish hearts into a Zionist political revolution. It emerged from …