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The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Late Manifestation of the Musical Trope
Western Ashkenazi cantors have developed a new soloist style of liturgically important…
Persistence and Transformation of a Sephardi Penitential Hymn under Changing Enviromental Conditions
A noteworthy study based on the comparative study of one Sephardic melody over a vast…
Jewish Musical Traditions
Presents Jewish musical traditions in the form of central themes, based on cultural…
Pinhas Minkowski
Pinhas Minkokwski was born in Belaya Tserkov, Ukraine, where his father officiated as…
Alexander Uria Boscovich
… with Mediterranean and specifically Mizrahi elements—modes, forms, textures, rhythms, and orchestration such as Arab …
Had Gadya
… was fully adopted, Had Gadya was interpreted in various forms throughout the centuries. The most common …
"Le-fellaḥ ha-rimon" (To a segment of the pomegranate)
Wedding zaffa in the form of a girdle poem by Yehuda Halevi: the groom praises his wife'…
Last Jews in Yemen
Larry S. Frisch
Tamar Jafroie is an Israeli of Yemenite decent. In search or her…
Shir hatunah be-leyl hamishi kesheyoshvim im he-hatan (be-aravit)
Shir hatunah be-leyl hamishi kesheyoshvim im he-hatan (be-aravit). Wedding song for the…
Dan Deutsch
Dan Deutsch is currently an Azrieli postdoctoral fellow in the Musicology Department at…