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Ancient Music in the Modern Classroom

… to broaden the horizons of music history to include non-Western and ancient musics was met with eagerness by those who believed that until Western music was seen in the setting of universal history, … 1940: 6). … 23472 … Ancient music … Music history … Non-Western music … Pedagogy … Musicology … Music education … …

Figure 2: 'Enosh ʽad daka tashev' with the Indication Be-niggun ‘Akedah

Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac

… Issac in various ways. Ashkenazi Jews did not employ Western notation until the late eighteenth century and relied … of Jews within the Ashkenazi realm became proficient in Western music notation, enabling them to record Jewish … order. [31] All transcriptions belong to the Western Ashkenazi rite. In parallel, our search for …

Moshe Attias

… in opposition to his later signature appearance with a Western suit (or at times, a Moroccan djellaba ) with a …

Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot

… its history of Hebrew printing presses and trade; and the Western port city of Livorno, which by the late 17th century …

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 …

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 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 …