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The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… various Iraqi, Cochini (from Kerala in India), Algerian and Italian manuscripts which include our song. The spread of … and its documentation are therefore formidable. However, musical renditions of the piyyut are rather rare and will be … its Sephardic origins, although other options (such as Italian) cannot be discarded. The unproven attribution to …
Traces of Jewish Musicians in the Writings of Lomazzo
… 23132 … Italy … Jewish musicians … Italian Jews … Renaissance … Jewish music … Jewish music research … Music history … Traces of …
Three Musical Ceremonies for Hôšanā Rabbah in the Jewish Community of Casale Monferrato (1732, 1733, 1735) (Hebrew)
… communities … Manuscripts … Eighteenth (18th) Century … Italian Jews … Scores … Liturgical works … Oratorios … Cantatas … Casale Monferrato … Three Musical Ceremonies for Hôšanā Rabbah in the Jewish Community …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records … Such remarks provide little information concerning the music itself, yet they offer valuable insights for the … from the 15th to the 17th Century . Milano: Associazione italiana amici dell’Università di Gerusalemme. Weinberger, …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… in sections according to the different Turkish makam s (musical modes), titled Shirei Israel be-eretz ha-qedem … of “Nuestro Señor Eloheinu” was circulating within the Italian Sephardic communities as early as the beginning of … example of “Yarad el hay” recorded by Leo Levy and sung by Italian cantor Simon Sacerdote of Livorno (first 33 seconds …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… modestly titled “Unsere erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , … 1794). Arguing against writers who maintained that the music of Jewish communities can be reduced to a common … and from the Comtat Venaissin (today Provence, France), the Italian communities of Casale Monferrato and Sienna, and the …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson Kiwi (1908-1992),” is a joint … Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, Germany) and the Jewish Music Research Centre (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, … the publication of her dissertation on the art of the Italian madrigal in 1933, she emigrated to Italy and from …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… Three Festivals and High Holidays, according to the minhag Italiani , also known as minhag Bnei Roma or minhag lo’azim … seven words. When exactly these verses entered the mahzor Italiani is hard to determine, but at the very latest one … return to this feature later. Right now, let us move to the musical performance of the three verses. The precious Leo …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … start, it represents two of the four genres (Jewish, Irish, Italian, and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take on assumed black music tastes) on which all of Berlin’s early works centred. …
Moshe Cordova
… m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our knowledge … set to Turkish classical music on the Sabbaths at the Italian Synagogue in Galata. This synagogue was also known … since at least the late 1910s. It was founded by Jews of Italian origin who had broken away from the main body of the …