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Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… richness of the improvisational performances I recorded to Western staff notation. The daily interactions I witnessed …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… this study will also challenge the binary construct of Western and Eastern Ashkenaz that has been criticized in … of Jewish studies. The German model spread well beyond Western Europe, becoming the inspiration for the music of …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… celebrations, and marginalized by mainstream (Western-oriented) Israeli culture. Only one Israeli … from the Galilee, who had enjoyed academic training in Western music and who wanted to carve a place for tarab music … shows how he was able to ‘translate’ this knowledge to a Western-trained ethnomusicologist. Shaheen’s instinctive …
Moshe Cordova
… for this purpose and transcribed some of his pieces in Western musical notation. Elnadav carried Cordova’s legacy …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… no’am,” which contributed to the early dissemination in Western Sephardic and North African Jewish communities of …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… letarbut. Rotenberg, Ayalah. [1999] 2003. Echoes of Yesteryear: Reminiscences of Jewish History in the Making: …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… in the article entitled “Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardic Melodies of Qinot for the Ninth of Av.” … While the Salonika version is slightly more akin to the Western Sephardi versions, whose trademark is the refrain …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… reoriented her research focus from the canon of Western art music to non-Western music, most particularly, the music of religious and … processes of change that her new life and experiences in Western Asia brought. This transfer and exchange of ideas …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hamnazeah , 1898, no. 66 Avenary mentioned that the “Western” melody, i.e. Sulzer’s, is similar to German folk … Let’s note here that Idelsohn’s comparative approach of Western Ashkenazi metric melodies such as “She’eh ne’esar” … Sound example 2 below) and Mr. Yehuda Weiss (from Sopron, Western Hungary; Sound example 3 below). A comparative …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… rather unique (from the Jewish perspective of the period) Western musical taste of the small but affluent Sephardic … music in Europe which would resonate with mainstream Western music history, Adler toured post-war Europe in a … It needs to be stressed however that the phenomenon of Western art music in European Jewish communities during the …