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Yehezkiel Braun
… that there is common basis, a certain pentatonic scale, for Jewish cantilation – Ashkenazi, Mizrahi, and Yemenite alike, … here for an additional biography on the Milken Archive of Jewish Music website. … Israeli composer … Idelsohn … …
Mordechai Breuer
… and holidays. In Israel, Breuer taught the history of Jewish music at the conservatory. In the 1950s, he taught at … was made systematically according to topics in the Jewish calendar as follows: introduction and personal …
Abraham Eilam-Amzallag
… Western compositional techniques. His works fuse Oriental Jewish melisma and modern techniques. In 1994 he … nine years from its establishment. For the first time the Jewish version of the Andalusian music was transcribed by … into Western notation. As a researcher, he researched the Jewish music of North Africa and published books and …
Gershon Ephros
… in 1957. Apart fom his cantorial career, Ephros taught Jewish music in Hebrew schools in New York and at the Hebrew Union College. He officiated as president of the Jewish Music Forum and was a member of the executive board of the National Jewish Music Council. As a composer, Ephros composed many …
Walter Zev Feldman
… Columbia University. Researcher on Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music, as well as the literature of the Ottoman and … music and poetry of epic in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, and Jewish klezmer music in the United States. His book , Music …
Gila Flam
… Press in 1992. Director of the Music Department of the Jewish National and University Library. Research interests: …
Judit Frigyesi
… of full liturgies of services with interviews) of the Jewish tradition recorded in East Europe and the largest … prose and photographs, the experience of the sound of Jewish prayer. … Musicologist … Judit Frigyesi …
Edith (Esther) Gerson Kiwi
… dealing with the correlation and mutual influence found in Jewish, Christian and Muslim musical traditions. To view her biography on the Jewish Women's Archive Website, click here . … Musicologist …
Don Harrán
… theorists in fifteenth- to seventeenth-century Italy; early Jewish women as poets and singers; the beginnings of Hebrew …
Andre Hajdu
… 5 March 1932 to a characteristically assimilated Hungarian-Jewish family and having survived the Holocaust (a subject … immersed himself in Judaism and started to observe Jewish religious practices. At the same time, he mingled in … returned to Israel to found the Department of Music at the Jewish National and University Library and the Jewish Music …