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The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… modestly titled “Unsere erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , … 1794). Arguing against writers who maintained that the music of Jewish communities can be reduced to a common … which he finished upon his return to Israel in the early 1960s. This thesis was submitted to the Sorbonne and …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… in sections according to the different Turkish makam s (musical modes), titled Shirei Israel be-eretz ha-qedem … as a hub for the wide distribution of our song as early as the first half of the 18th century: Venice, with … region. Below we will highlight only a few. One significant early publication is derived from a collection of Hebrew and …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent … label at their studio on Raziel Street in Jaffa. These early recording sessions were all “live to tape,” unlike … a hallmark of Moroccan religious devotion, hillulot , the yearly celebrations of the death anniversary of saintly …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, … the Old to the New World, it is worth stressing that as early as the 1880s, America began exporting Yiddish songs … . and workers sing his songs with tears in their eyes.” As early as 1914, twenty-two years after Edlestadt died, …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… as part of Parashat Vayera’ (Gen. XVIII:1 – XXII:24), early in the annual cycle of weekly portions, and on the … [10] Still, the overwhelming majority of poems clearly indicates that the ideal form for an ‘Akedah piyyut … century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records …
The Music of Kurdistan Jews - a Synopsis of their Musical Styles
… including a strong tendency towards linguistic as well as musical dialect formation. It is only natural that the musical traditions of Kurdistan Jews should also have been … in speaking as in song preserve some remnants of an early pre-Christian style; in other words, here we seem to …
Musical Tradition and its Transmitters between Synagogue and Church
… folksong' and its applicability in the instance of the musical tradition of the old Synagogue; (2) the attitude of Western music historians to the question of Jewish influence on early Church music. As will be seen, we are convinced that a …
The Influence of Choral Elements on the Formation and Development of the Piyyût Genres (Hebrew)
… in the prayers was minimal. It is excluded by the early Palestinian piyyûtim , which are in continuous-flow … reflected by the piyyûtim created there. … Choirs, Choral music … Choral, Choral music … Choirs, Choral … 9836 … Piyyut … Piyyutim … Hymns … …
Eduard Birnbaum - a Bibliography
… scholarly work is well known to every student of Jewish music. I was privileged to belong to the team that … to his article on the Birnbaum collection of Jewish music (see item no. 66 in our bibliography) and Alfred … his pupil Samuel Gutmann who wanted to publish them in the early 1930's. This project, as well as Arno Nadel's project …
Introduction to Idelsohn’s Autobiographical Sketches
… Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati. The retirement, at the early age of fifty-two, came only two years after the … was printed half a year later in Jacob Beiml's Jewish Music Journal (New York). … 9593 … Idelsohn A.Z. … …