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Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
Introduction
Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, and other…
Haggai Ben-Shammai
Haggai Ben-Shammai was born in Tel-Aviv in 1939, grew up in Jerusalem and has lived to…
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
Niggun ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac,…
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
In 1979 Esther Warkov, a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came…
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
In 1979 Esther Warkov, a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel…
El lifne [sic] har Galil (shir hatunah)
Iran (Shiraz)
El lifne [sic] har Galil (shir hatunah). The god appearing in front of…
65. El baile de los falsos (Sida Musafija)
This is a Judeo-Spanish contrafact of an extremely popular dance melody of the early…
En kelohenu
Composed by Pavel Slavensky, one piece attributed to him, En kelohenu, was found in the…
Lekha dodi
Taken from one of the major anthologies of Curaçao’s Jewish liturgical music that was…
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
This document, in the form of a synoptic table, incorporates three versions of Idelsohn’…