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A Hassidic Ritual Dance: The Mitsve Tants in Jerusalemite Weddings
… The aim of the present paper is to describe the ritual dance (' mitsve tants ' or ' kosher tants ' in Yiddish) … and focus in particular on the structural analysis of its musical and textual aspects. … Hasidic … Hasidim … Hasidic … … Hassidic … Hassidim … Hassidic music … Mitsve tants … Dance … Wedding music … Jerusalem … A Hassidic Ritual Dance: …
The Bergamasca: Some Jewish Links?
… between the bergamasca , the popular Renaissance dance, and Jewish synagogue music? The idea had first been suggested by Eduard Birnbaum … its links - hypothetical as well as confirmed - with Jewish music. … 23139 … Bergamasca … Renaissance … Music … Jewish …
Jewish Singing and Boxing in Georgian England
… composed of dry lists of names, titles, textual and musical incipits, folio numbers, concordances, variant spellings and other similarly 'inspiring' … are merely the stuff from which the historical and musical story may be reconstructed. Yet, as every library …
Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… has shown in a lifetime of work, the history of Jewish music is really a set of complex, interlocking histories. … of a given Jewish community and time in terms of its musical life. One type of situation, which I … assimilating public. The cameraman who filmed the wedding-dance sequence in the Polish town of Kazimierz Dolny …
Aspects of Music Culture in the Land of Israel during the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Periods: Sepphoris as a Case Study
… years of Hellenistic culture, manifested in language, art, music, cult and thought. Yet, despite and alongside the … time offers an opportunity to examine the development of music culture in a region that was inhabited by people of … the music culture in the Land of Israel. Based on the abundance of music-related artifacts found, this paper examines …
Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition
… we encounter the fateful question if this kind of music making is at all in the nature of man, and therefore … late result of cultural processes. Recently, however, ethnomusicology has reversed much of this conventional thought. … to arrive at a plain definition of polyphony, in accordance with present day standards of music research. … 9480 …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… and its documentation are therefore formidable. However, musical renditions of the piyyut are rather rare and will be … folk song,” in the style that would accompany a folk dance. Geula Gill recorded one of the earliest commercial … ( Oriole MG 10027) and in the 1963 Israel in Song and Dance (Makolit). Also Ran Eliran included the song in his …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… from B’nai Jeshrun: http://www.bj.org/spiritual-life/music-of-bj/invitation-to-piyyut-na/el-eliyahu/ Literary … asks for a revelation from God or from the Messiah. Music: Origins and Performances The piyyut “Eli Eliyahu” is … meter, when shva nah is performed as shva na h , in accordance with the metric structure. [7] Abraham Z. Idelsohn, …
Avi Bar-Eitan
… researcher, and lecturer. He received his Ph.D. in musicology at the Hebrew University, and his M.A. and M.Mus … Hebrew University and the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. Dr. Bar-Eitan’s doctoral work dealt with the … of External Studies at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. He is also a lecturer at the Academy in harmony, …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… role in dramatically shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. … career began in the 1960s, developing out of the folk music and communal singing tradition of Jewish summer camps. … the Creator in turn answers the prayer and sends down abundance and blessing. Part B : The second part of the song …