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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 … in New York City. Nathanson, 1939 In contrast to this German-oriented lineage of the learning tune, Abraham Z. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… section of the Jacob Michael Collection of Jewish Music at the National Sound Archives of the Israel National … Library, a still largely unexplored treasure of Jewish Musical Americana, includes a magnificent recording of … Zionist circles, especially youth movements in Poland and Germany, adopted this wordless Hassidic niggun as a hora …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… tape from the AMLI Library in Haifa digitized by the Feher Music Center at Beth Hatefutsoth and transferred to the … presence of the Purim song in the Yiddish song revival in Germany. … Haynt Iz Purim, Brider (‘Today is Purim, … Harry Coopersmith and others. The sources of the text and music of this famous Purim song are multiple; studying them …
Yonatan Malin
… Professor in the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music. His research explores musical structure and meaning a wide variety of genres including German Lieder, Klezmer, and Jewish liturgical music. His book Songs in Motion: Rhythm and Meter in the German Lied was published in 2010 by Oxford University …