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Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… important role in dramatically shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. … text. A number of melodies for 'Shema' Koleinu' written by Ashkenazi composers in the twentieth century are in the …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a … of Oral Law passages and other pedagogical texts) with liturgical ones (blessings, prayers and psalms). The musical … in a liquid] once; on this night, twice. The traditional Ashkenazi learning tune Already in the late Middle Ages …
Bernardo Feuer
… and secondary school in his hometown and was drawn to music from an early age. Feuer learned the basics of music from his father, and later joined several liturgical choirs. When he was fifteen, he had his first … - Cantors … Cantors - Hazzanim … Argentina … Choir … Ashkenazi … Bernardo Feuer … Silvia Glocer …
Between Tradition and Modernity
… Maier Levi of Esslingen is volume 12 of the JMRC's Yuval Music Series. The new production comprises 179 liturgical pieces with extensive annotations and analyses … of the major publications undertaken in the field of the Ashkenazi liturgy. We quote from the introduction to the …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… Niggun ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of … will. [4] Additionally, a specific category of piyyutim (liturgical poems) relating the story of the Binding of Isaac … century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent … narratives of forced cultural erasure by an aggressive Ashkenazi-dominated establishment. Mwijo’s repertoire also … were not directly related to saintly figures or to paraliturgical occasions. An example is the Judeo-Arabic …
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 … method for addressing the musical aspects of Hebrew liturgical poetry from an evolutionary diachronic … ne'esar' in his A Voice Still Heard: The Sacred Song of the Ashkenazic Jews (University Park and London, 1976, pp. …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… glad to launch the sixth volume in the Contemporary Jewish Music series, 13 Jewish Folk Tunes, an online … embedded within a Jewish multi-ethnic scene that includes liturgical, para-liturgical and folk tunes of Eastern … Stutschewsky … Cello - Violoncello … Klezmer music … Ashkenazim … Ashkenazi … Sephardi … Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to the scholarly … for four voices a capella (substituting older improvised Ashkenazi forms of choral accompaniment), partially based on …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… “ Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan Jewish Musical Map .” This extract is accompanied by the recordings … if not exclusively, dominated by the singing of paraliturgical Hebrew (and at times Judeo-Arabic and Aramaic) … by the congregation in our recording, in a suspiciously Ashkenazi-tinged tonal structure, most probably derive as we …