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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. … of a given Jewish community and time in terms of its musical life. One type of situation, which I … the only surviving footage of spontaneous pre-Holocaust folk choreography. In the present brief contribution, I will …
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 … research. … 9480 … Vocal … Vocal music … Polyphony … Folk music … Instruments … Percussion … Definitions … Monophony … Jewish … Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition … …
Bernardo Feuer
… and secondary school in his hometown and was drawn to music from an early age. Feuer learned the basics of music … synagogue material and included arrangements of Jewish folk songs, choral parts of operas in the original language … , they proposed to the “Vaad Hajinuj” to establish a Jewish folk choir with the aim of spreading Jewish culture through …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… with them as they migrated, including literary traditions, musical forms and the Judeo-Spanish language, Ladino. The Jewish musical life that developed in Saloniki consisted of these … Another song regarding the Great Fire: http://www.jewishfolksongs.com/he/el-dio-la-mate-esta-grega Footnotes: 1. …
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 … that Magilnitzky refers to as “the known melody”), the “folk” one became widespread, indeed as a Hebrew folksong, in …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a … our Song of the Month archive). The singing of serial folksongs added at the end of the seder is a late medieval … founding member of the Saint Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music. His work was performed only once in Haifa in …
Avi Bar-Eitan
… researcher, and lecturer. He received his Ph.D. in musicology at the Hebrew University, and his M.A. and M.Mus … from the 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 …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… role in dramatically shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. … career began in the 1960s, developing out of the folk music and communal singing tradition of Jewish summer camps. …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… … In 1926, in “New Palestinean [sic] Folk Songs” – one of the earliest Zionist songbooks … of this melody appears in A.W. Binder’s “New Palestinean Folk Songs,” it is important to explore first the history of … publishing houses of the time, issued “New Palestinean Folk Songs,” which included 22 songs arranged for voice and …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… Purim brider' from the Ruth Rubin's archival collection, "Folksongs and Folklore 1948-1967 – Holidays' Songs – Purim." Recorded in … as we pointed out on traditional formulae) shows that the folk tradition in Yiddish lacked family songs for Purim. …