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The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… Arguing against writers who maintained that the music of Jewish communities can be reduced to a common source, … proposed that musical diversity is the natural state of Jewish culture. Lidarti’s setting was a case exemplifying … Driven by a nationalist-oriented agenda to constitute a history of Jewish music in Europe which would resonate with …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… as the first half of the 18th century: Venice, with its history of Hebrew printing presses and trade; and the … connected to the performance practices of the local Jewish-Portuguese community. To the contrary, Salomon’s …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… a rich field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, when new forms of expressing Jewishness through music challenged the normative status of … of old. Browsing through my private collection of Jewish songsters in search for new songs for Passover for my …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… Yiẓḥak , or ‘Akedah ) has assumed an important function in Jewish religion and culture since Antiquity. This renowned narrative describes how the first Jewish family (Abraham, Sarah and Isaac) came close to … This question touches upon an important matter – the history of Jewish worship – which seems to have changed over …
The Music of Kurdistan Jews - a Synopsis of their Musical Styles
… of thought in sciences or arts. Its more recent political history has demonstrated the inevitable results of … in that it is to a considerable extent connected with Jewish history of the biblical period. … 9480 … Kurdistan … … Jews … Jews … Kurds … Culture … Musical traditions … Jewish cultural groups … Musical styles … The Music of …
Robert Lachmann: His Achievement and His Legacy
… Two memorable anniversaries in the history of Ethnomusicology occurred in 1972: the ninetieth … founders of Comparative Musicology in Israel for both the Jewish and the Arab cultures. The following lines are …
Paradigms of Arabic Modes in the Genizah Fragment Cambridge T.S. N.S. 90,4
… commerce, medicine, poetry and learned studies in the Jewish community of old Cairo (Fostat) and other towns of … … Medieval … Middle Ages … Cairo Genizah … Geniza … Egypt … Jewish History … Manuscripts … Modes … Arabic modes … Paradigms of …
A Jewish Sufi on the Influence of Music
… To palliate the lack of specialized compositions by Jewish authors during the mediaeval period on the subject of … 23205 … Treatise … Moral treatise … Music research … Music history … Jewish music … Jewish music research … A Jewish Sufi on the …
The Magical and Theurgic Interpretation of Music in Jewish Sources from the Renaissance to Hassidism (Hebrew)
… Since the end of the 15th century we find a long series of Jewish texts containing a new evaluation of music as a means of power. This attitude emerges among Italian Jewish authors and seems to be influenced by parallel views … Tov, the founder of Hassidism. … Hasidim … 23257 … Music history … Kabbalah … Jewish texts … Music theory … Power of …
Exemplification and the Limits of “Correctness”: The Implicit Methodology of Idelsohn’s "Thesaurus"
… the position of a great pioneer in the systematic study of Jewish music would constitute a statement about which history has already given its verdict. Indeed, in the … … Methodology … Ethnomusicology … Musicology … Research … Jewish music … Exemplification and the Limits of …