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The Idelsohn Project
… new text set to an existing Hassidic niggun) Abraham Zvi Idelsohn, was a European-born Jewish musician who insisted … imagination? … … These queries form the core of the Idelsohn Project, which this section of the JMRC website … composer, educator, and cantor, Abraham Zvi Idelsohn (1882-1938), his life is still uncharted territory. …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… recordings and transcriptions made by Abraham Zvi Idelsohn that were carried out approximately at the same … as those of Lurie. For example, the transcription made by Idelsohn to the popular wedding song "Maq’helot ‘am", a poem by Mordecai Abadi of Aleppo (1826-1884) (Idelsohn HOM , IV, no. 453; see example 1) reflects a …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… is well documented in Levin (1988, 1996). Abraham Zvi Idelsohn, himself born and raised in Kurland, included in … songs he knew through oral transmission from his childhood (Idelsohn 1932, p. x). Soviet Yiddish folk song collections, … There are also a few Jewish songs of Lithuanian origin. Idelsohn found one song (1932, xxiii and no. 400, davnen …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… The versions from Salonika and Aleppo recorded by Idelsohn ( HOM , vol. 4, no. 135 and 177 respectively) show … Jews. Figure 4.'Bore 'ad ana,' Saloniki version, A.Z. Idelsohn Figure 5. 'Bore 'ad ana,' Aleppo version, A.Z. Idelsohn While the Salonika version is slightly more akin …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… In the footsteps of Robert Lachmann as well as Abraham Zvi Idelsohn (1882-1938), another pioneer of music research in … Robert Lachmann: His Achievement and His Legacy, 1974 A.Z. Idelsohn: A Pioneer in Jewish Ethnomusicology, 1986 She also …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… (University Park and London, 1976, pp. 100-101) quoting Idelsohn's work (see below) and Emanuel Kirschner's printed … & Härtel, 1913). In fact, this information was taken from Idelsohn’s introduction to volume 7 of the Thesaurus of … refers to other possible German sources for this melody. Idelsohn included “She’eh ne’esar” in this volume dedicated …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… Even the “father” of Jewish music research, Abraham Z. Idelsohn , did not dedicate more than a footnote to these …
Idelsohn's Autobiographical Sketches (Hebrew)
… 9593 … Idelsohn's Autobiographical Sketches (Hebrew) … אליהו שלייפר …
My Life (Hebrew)
… 9508 … My Life (Hebrew) … Abraham Zvi Idelsohn …
The Announcement of the Institute of Jewish Music in Jerusalem by A. Z. Idelsohn and S. Z. Rivlin in 1910 (Hebrew)
… of the Institute of Jewish Music in Jerusalem by A. Z. Idelsohn and S. Z. Rivlin in 1910 (Hebrew) … Bathja [Batya] …