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Moritz Rosenhaupt
… By Edwin Seroussi German cantor and composer Moritz/Moses Rosenhaput was born … (today Offenbach-Hundheim, in the Rheinland-Pfalz State, Germany). His father, Jacob, was a rabbi and teacher; he … major codifiers of the South German synagogue liturgy in musical notation and yet his name does not appear …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… and below each word. However, the chant also has clear musical features, with a variety of scales, motives, … In the present paper, I will provide a new perspective on musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern … Schönberg 1927 provides a condensed and rich analysis of German-Jewish (Western Ashkenazi) cantillation based on …
Assaf Shelleg
… Musicologist and pianist Assaf Shelleg is senior lecturer of musicology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was … Book Award of the Association for Jewish Studies. A German translation this book was published by …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… of the opening stanza, is the refrain (the same words and music are repeated) and x, the last line of the rest of the … catalogue. The persistence of our poem in the heart of the German soil and its presence further East, in Poland, is … documented in 1724 and 1733) found in South and West Germany, West of the Rhine river (See image no. 1) and in …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a … even though major ceremonies of Judaism which include music take place within the circle of the immediate or … Nathanson, 1939 In contrast to this German-oriented lineage of the learning tune, Abraham Z. …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… be performed in Jewish communities on Purim, especially in Germany, is one of those songs. Attributed to Salomon Ibn … 1912 (De Rossi 697), which is dated to the 15 th century in Germany or France. The song is in fol. 21a-b and follows the … and its documentation are therefore formidable. However, musical renditions of the piyyut are rather rare and will be …
Bernardo Feuer
… and secondary school in his hometown and was drawn to music from an early age. Feuer learned the basics of music from his father, and later joined several liturgical … 1959 Feuer also worked with the Sephardic Jewish and the German Jewish (Bnei Israel) community in Chile, and promoted …
Between Tradition and Modernity
… Maier Levi of Esslingen is volume 12 of the JMRC's Yuval Music Series. The new production comprises 179 liturgical … Maier Levi and his times as well as of the entire Southern German liturgical Jewish tradition round out the 470 pages … detailed transcription of the synagogue chant of the South German Jews. On this chant tradition Maier Levi clearly was …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… emerged during the tenth century in present day southern Germany and northern France. However, it also acquired two … of many types of piyyutim , yet they are rare in German literature (Fleischer 2007, 470; Goldschmidt 1965, 9; … century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent … Moroccan was Jewish or Muslim) invited him to perform in Germany. Mwijo adamantly refused to play in Germany because of the Holocaust – even after an offer of …