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Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… Jewish Music Collections of the Vernadsky National Library of … documentation of Eastern European Jewish music and folklore. The complicated paths of encounter between … , at the time the Librarian and Director of the Archive of Folk Song at the American Folklife Center of the Library of …
Music, Muslims and Jews
… means of communication capable of surmounting estrangement. Music and music making was an area of cultural expression in which the … Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur: Qanun master, composer and …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the passing of Moroccan Jewish folk singer Alicia (Benassayag) Bendayan on Friday, June 11, … appeared on commercial recordings, such as the important Folkways release, Ballads, Wedding Songs, and Piyyutim of …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… glad to launch the sixth volume in the Contemporary Jewish Music series, 13 Jewish Folk Tunes, an online world-premiere recording of … scene that includes liturgical, para-liturgical and folk tunes of Eastern European and Babylonian Jewish …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… later in her life, became one of the most remarkable folk performers of traditional Sephardic songs within the … . Today many consider “Pesah a la mano” as a traditional folksong, and rightly so. Jagoda first recorded the song in … patterns animate its language, poetical structure and musical setting, as seen below. Purim, Purim Lanu (Ladino …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… from archives around the world offer unique vistas on past musical cultures. These findings show the extent to which repertoires of traditional music have evolved in the century or more since commercial … it for choir, in the spirit of the modernist approach to folk songs characteristic of the twentieth-century Bulgarian …
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 … collection . Middleton WI: A-R editions, 2014. Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics makes public a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… such as seli h ot . I have studied in great detail the musical setting of this poem in Sephardic communities, … among various communities, there seems to be an underlying musical structure tying together all the documented versions … fast days in the Jewish liturgical calendar, spiced with folk tales related to these events. When the section in the …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… (1908-1992) is considered one of the founders of Israeli musicology. She studied piano and musicology in Berlin, … in different post-war sub-disciplines of musicology such as folk music research, Cantus-Planus-research, or the study of … four articles in the JMRC journal Yuval : Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition, …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, 1970), Hanoch Avenary set a new … the “Western” melody, i.e. Sulzer’s, is similar to German folk melodies, some documented as early as the fifteenth … is found in many Ashkenazi liturgical melodies and Yiddish folksongs. All in all, this oral version vindicates Wodak’s …