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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 evaluation of “the gray area between the art, folk, and popular in the Israeli song.” His research …
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 … ha-mayim,” has the indication “ne’imah ‘amamit,” i.e. “folk melody.” While only Idelsohn has documented the … folk song,” in the style that would accompany a folk dance. Geula Gill recorded one of the earliest commercial …
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 … to arrive at a plain definition of polyphony, in accordance with present day standards of music research. … 9480 … Vocal … Vocal music … Polyphony … Folk music … Instruments … Percussion … Definitions … …
Towards a Typology of the Judeo-Spanish Folksong: Gerineldo and the Romance Model
… a long-term project which seeks to define the Judeo-Spanish folksong as represented in its geographical distribution, by … at the very least, two components, text and music, an interdisciplinary approach is necessary in order … definition. Our analysis, therefore, is conducted in accordance with parameters which take into account the …
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. … assimilating public. The cameraman who filmed the wedding-dance sequence in the Polish town of Kazimierz Dolny … the only surviving footage of spontaneous pre-Holocaust folk choreography. In the present brief contribution, I will …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records … the same melody. The melody itself presents a mixture of a folk tune and a psalmodic chant. It is simple, easily … Following the printing revolution, and the subsequent abundance of private prayer books, these prayer practices …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone … how the dabke , one of the region’s most popular folk dances, belonged to the Palestinian national struggle: We …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis … a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector … us to study, perform, and hear again some of the songs and dances performed by members of substantial, centuries-old …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and music. The neighborhood had grown around an absorption … the kiln and put up for sale, and a traditional music and dance troupe . Also named Meseret , the troupe played in … context, is also favored over other available choices: a folklorized, depoliticized Ethiopianness or alternatively, …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… of its contents in the wider context of Hasidic music research is a desideratum. The present essay, focusing … time in Beregovski’s Evreiskiie narodnyie pesni [Jewish Folk Songs] – the collection that Beregovski prepared for … traditional Hassidic melodies were adapted to new texts and dances by the Zionist pioneers in Ottoman and British …