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The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… (1908-1992) is considered one of the founders of Israeli musicology. She studied piano and musicology in … activities led to the institutionalization of musicology at Israeli universities and colleges, developing a focus on the … recorded items (each one comprising several units, such as songs and dialogues), which, although already digitized and …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… structure [that] gives it the stamp of the common European song.” Melody emerges in this case from the poetic form and … in this text. Indeed, as part of his acerbic approach to Israeli musicology in general and to the work of Avenary in … 1914), viciously remarks that this is 'a fair example of Israeli musical scholarhip.' (ibid., p. 305, note 47) Rather …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… and poetic texts with melodies from pre-existing popular songs, a practice with roots in the sixteenth century that … essentially immobile and inaccessible to many, especially Israeli Jews; second, the famous record’s copy on my mobile … to being synthesized with the ideological precepts of the Israeli-Palestinian/Arab conflict. Although aimed at …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , an insert of the … College in Cincinnati. Fast forward to the 1950s. A young Israeli scholar studying in Paris, Israel Adler (1925-2009), … arranged as a mini-cantata. We titled this cantata “Song for the Inauguration of the Portuguese Synagogue” …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… Our song of the month concerns a Sephardic song commonly sung on the Passover and Shavuot holidays, … receiving of the Ten Commandments, and the arrival of the Israelites to the land of Canaan. Geographically, our song …
Yonatan Turgeman
… musician ('Avodot Afar'). His dissertation, 'The Science of Song in 'Pre-Academic' Israeli Musicology and the Problem of the Scholar-Composer,' … to issues of scientific approaches to the phenomenon of song as well as the interplay between creative musical …
Moshe Attias
… that as a token of gratitude, Ben Haroush left him his songbooks, which had also been handed down to him. The … royalties for his music, instead he began by earning ten Israeli lira per song (he would share some of this with … career Mwijo was, above all, a “hidden treasure” within the Israeli musical scene. Unlike most of his contemporary …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… of the Binding of Isaac and was also used for additional songs in Hebrew and Yiddish, the content of which relates to … (Hebrew) Geshuri, Meir Shimon, ed. 1964. Kol Israel: Israeli Traditional Cantorial Anthology; with Compositions … ve-shirah [ The Sword of the Word: The Binding of Isaac in Israeli Poetry ]. Tel Aviv: Hakibbuẓ Hame’uḥad (Hebrew) …
Bernardo Feuer
… synagogue material and included arrangements of Jewish folk songs, choral parts of operas in the original language or … to the city of Rosario (Santa Fe province) to work at the Israelite Association of Rosario. He led that institution’s … to Santiago de Chile to found the liturgical choir of the Israelite Circle. Israel Farba, a student of Feuer, was the …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… 14 from the 1998 JMRC recording Nights in Canaan, Early Songs of the Land of Israel (1882-1946) . … Not all … repository for the repertoire in this album. Since then the Israeli websites Invitation to Piyut and Zemereshet have … by Voice of the Turtle in 2000. In the 1950s and 1960s Israeli folk singers, some of whom were active at that time …