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Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… history is complex, revealing a number of interrelated musical and textual settings. Looking into the information … familiarity with a version of “Balini-b balwa” from as early as the 1920’s in Baghdad, it could be that this strand … variant does not include some melismatic motives that are nearly identical in the other versions, causing the …
El Shokhen Shamayim - A Recorded Pearl of Andalusian Hebrew Music from Algeria Recovered
… magnificent collection of 78 rpm recordings of Sephardic music is well-known to all those interested in this … most probably in Turkey. This is as attested by its early printing (very truncated and with a different … cautiously dated to the second half of the 17th century or early 18th century. How and when this Ottoman Hebrew song …
Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
… The Jewish Music Research Centre mourns the recent passing of … Dukhan (“Pulpit”) that included the lectures read at each yearly conference. Avigdor’s prolific ethnographic work during those early years became a cornerstone for the newly created Sound …
An Ashkenazi version of “Ehad mi yode’a” in…Arabic
… remarks refer to the two main sharqi versions documented musically, the ones from the ancient cities of Aleppo … their brethren from the lands of Islam in Palestine had musical ramifications that are still to be studied. The … to her own testimony “forty years ago,” i.e. late 1920s or early 1930s. A copy of this recording from the Kfar Giladi …
The Idelsohn Project
… Is music intrinsically political? The best-known Jewish song in … physiognomy of Jewish Orientalism and its ties to early Arab- Jewish sociopolitical and cultural encounters in Palestine during the late Ottoman period and the early years of the British Mandate; the transnational …
Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs
… Judith R. Cohen and Risto Pekka Pennanen In 2008 the Jewish Music Research Centre released a 4-CD package entitled An Early 20th-century Sephardi Troubadour: The Historic … commercial recordings had on musical traditions from the early twentieth century, that production became a landmark …
Cantata Ebraica in Dialogo
… the "Watchers of the Dawn" fraternity as the final verse clearly shows. He questions them about the reason for their … of the foundation of their confraternity. … Synagogal Music in the Baroque Vol. 1 … Baroque … Hosha'nah Rabbah … Italian Jews … Synagogue music … Cantata Ebraica in Dialogo …
Echo-Poem for a Wedding in the Ghetto of Mantua
… of this period and we know of several references to musical settings of such poems. In Rossi's setting the role of the second choir is reduced to assume the "echo" nearly throughout the whole piece. … Baroque … Italian Jews … Jewish wedding music … Synagogue music … Music … Echo-Poem for a Wedding in …
Omar la-Adonay maḥsi
… be R. Mas’ud ben Mordechai Asab‘uni of Marrakesh, late 19th-early 20th c.) is is a stirring and energetic piyyut , … Hebrew Song from the Maghreb to Jerusalem … Israeli art music … Israel … Piyyut … Morocco … Rabbi Haim Louk … Omar …
Qiddush (kidousche)
… shalom siñores” (“A peaceful Sabbath my friends”). … An Early Twentieth-Century Sephardi Troubadour: The Historical … … Ladino … Ladino - Judeo-Espagnol - Judizmo … Liturgical music … Spanish … Twentieth (20th) Century … Sephardi … …