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Judeo-Caribbean Currents
… Curaçao. Its liturgical music is a reflection of the rich historical path followed by this unique Sephardic community … others. The selections prepared for this CD represent the texts most conspicuously set to music in the Curaçao …
Ashkenazic and Italian Liturgy
… the reading of the te’amim, or cantillation of Biblical texts, according to the Italian minhag. This minhag was … University of Jerusalem Ashkenazi Liturgical Music: When Historical Perspective Meets Cognitive Considerations … to identify and survey the basic fundamental conceptual, historical, and terminological issues that stand to pose an …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… to modern Hassidic music research. Geshuri’s reflexive historical awareness lead him to declare himself a pioneer, … discuss two types of sources: the niggunim themselves and texts concerning niggun, or in his words, “ideas, exempla, … the war. His predecessors lacked the analytical tools and historical perspective to study the “torat haniggun,” and …
Haim Effendi
… “composed.” By composition, we mean the setting of original texts in Judeo-Spanish to extant melodies of well-known … as well as of his activity as translator of liturgical texts into Judeo-Spanish, can be found in a publication from … release An Early Twentieth-Century Sephardi Troubadour: The Historical Recordings of Haim Effendi of Turkey .) … 10 … …
Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… there only for a year. There is no question about the historical role and importance of Cantor Salomon in the … that “Kashtan” was a nickname, and was used in Jewish contexts. Although it referred initially and primarily to … Bitzaron. Idelsohn, Abraham Zevi. 1929. Jewish Music in Its Historical Development . New York: Henry Holt. Katz, Daniel …
Israel Adler
… for the most part not studied until then, with innovative historical insights that revised previous paradigms in the … Idelsohn (1882-1938). Attempting to construct an unilinear historical narrative of musical development running from … written sources (i.e. manuscript and printed scores, texts about music, textual descriptions of musical events, …
Andre Hajdu
… by interpreting through music, as an exegete, basic Jewish texts, such as the Mishnah, the Talmud and the philosophical … of Jonah (1987), Job and His Comforters , a biblical and historical oratorio, and Qoheleth , a setting of the book of … for narrator and cellos (both 1995). Besides Jewish texts, he was deeply interested in Jewish history. His …
Amnon Shiloah
… approach to Jewish music combined his expertise on historical sources from the Arabic-speaking Jewish realm … the affective powers of music and its uses in ritual contexts with his exclusive ethnographic experience among the …