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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 …
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 …
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, …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… the section in the recording dealing with the Ninth of Av starts, Hocha says: “and the cantor starts with the first qinah ” and sings “Bore ‘ad ana.” Your …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… a looser beat. The melodic movement of B has two parts, the first of which descends to the sub-tonic, while … shows a dramatic melodic deviation in phrase A, which starts straight away on tone 5 of the mode rather than on 1 or …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… Palestine. The way I considered it, divesting myself of parts of a song that promised to be a remnant of a repertoire … but fluent Arabic, a language which, within certain parts of Israeli society, is still seen as the language of … that the famous record was pressed in a factory in Berlin, parts of which were subsequently used to produce military …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… the word denotes “skies”) instead of their Hebrew counterparts. In comparison to the version recorded by Yurchenko, we …
Moshe Attias
… from his earlier years when he could only remember parts of songs – that Mwijo maintained the honorific title of …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… hastened (given that he was asked to sing extensive parts of the High Holiday liturgy) and therefore difficult to … Scherman, Nosson, et al. (eds.). 1996. The Complete Artscroll Machzor: Yom Kippur – Nusach Ashkenaz . New York: …
The Music of Kurdistan Jews - a Synopsis of their Musical Styles
… continuity of national schools of thought in sciences or arts. Its more recent political history has demonstrated the …