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Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… article, one sees how the allure of Rossi’s Hebrew compositions to modern scholars impacts the perception of …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… characteristic of the twentieth-century Bulgarian school of composition. His modern polyphonic arrangement was recorded …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… urban shtick of Porter’s and Kern’s songs; or the compositional virtuosity of any of the above” (Greenberg …
Moshe Cordova
… substantial collections of scores of more than one hundred compositions by Cordova and other Ottoman Muslim and Jewish … Below is the recording of one of Cordova’s most celebrated compositions, Uri ‘ori, a beste in makam Beyati set to a …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… notes on the genesis of this work, musical analysis of the composition, and an extensive biographical article. Racheli …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… music — no matter how many white Jews were involved in its composition and playing. This contortion of self-exclusion … Part I, “Becoming American”, discusses the roots of jazz composition as it emerged from some of the Jewish …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… and of the Ukrainian, and additional recordings of Jewish compositions. These recordings were done at the beginning of …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… whose authority was acquired through their vocal and compositional skills, proficiency in the repertoire and …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… Nadel had in front of him a specific source for this choral composition. In the January 1908 issue of the important … of sections is a hallmark of traditional Hassidic nign “composition.” While there are nigunim whose structure … in all documented versions (usually pieces of more recent composition), many more show phenomena similar to the ones …
Curt Sachs
… Born in Berlin, Sachs studied piano, music theory and composition as a youth in that city. He began a career as an …