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Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited

… music traditions, such as ensemble lineup, primary instruments, specifically Iraqi maqamat , and the melodic …

Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century

… recorded by people who have become revered as masters of instrumental klezmer music in the 1920s, he embraces the … offers background on the general history of Jewish-interest instrumental records in the early twentieth century. Along … Rubin imposes on this material, such as adding the other instruments into the mix, and the discussion might have …

Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv

… the Vernadsky recordings,” Sholokhova has also been kindly instrumental in guiding this writer in the intricacies of …

German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections

… aspect of this musical innovation. Third, the use of instrumental music, most particularly the organ was a … of cantors, choristers, choirmasters and instrumentalists and the disciplining of an orally …

Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography

… to Ethiopian culture. Traditional Ethiopian musical instruments including the krar (harp) , masinqo (one … among the immigrants. Chapter 4 focuses on the musical instruments played by Ethiopian Jews in Israel, to include … of Jerusalem. Atar, Ron, 2005, “The Function of Musical Instruments in the Liturgy of the Ethiopian Jews.” The Jews …

Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3

… dancing tune, a testimony of the porosity between vocal and instrumental repertoires of the Eastern European Jewish … brings this nign close to the Eastern European Jewish instrumental repertoire ( klezmer ; see above the … in prayer tunes, in the Yiddish folk song and in the old instrumental repertoire. [1] The two intervals that set …

Curt Sachs

… eventually being appointed director of the Staatliche Instrumentensammlung, a large collection of musical instruments. He reorganised and restored much of the … saw the publication of his book Real-Lexicon der Musikinstrumente , probably the most comprehensive survey of …