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Voices of the People: The Story of Yiddish Folksong
… this volume brings the Jews' ancient, itinerant culture alive through children's songs, dancing songs, and … annotations weave each text into the larger story of the Jewish experience. Noted scholar Mark Slobin provides a new …
George Gershwin's songbook: Influences of Jewish music, ragtime and Jazz
… with the early 20th music. In America's melting-pot of cultures, the influences of ragtime, jazz and traditional Jewish music may be found. Gershwin wrote for the piano in a … Robert Chicurel … George Gershwin's songbook: Influences of Jewish music, ragtime and Jazz …
Jewish Musicians at the Court of the Mantuan Dukes 1542-1628
… by Judith Cohen. Published jointly with the Council for Culture & Art of the Ministry of Education and Culture for the World Congress on Jewish Music, Jerusalem, 1978. … 58 … 1 … 52 … Tel-Aviv … Tel-Aviv University, Faculty of Fine Arts, School of Jewish Studies … Documentation & studies … … 1978 … Music … …
Change and Ideology: the Ethnomusicology of Turkish Jewry
… stylistic changes in music can be related to changes in the culture of which it is a part. Change in music is seen as a … orientations and sociohistorical processes. In Turkish Jewish music, where differential continuity and change are … change, in particular specific change in Turkish Jewish music. Data were gathered through …
Medieval Elements in the Liturgical Music of the Jews of Southern France and Northern Spain
… to the end of the 15th c., the center of gravity of Iberian Jewish culture moved northward to Christian Spain and Provence. The … of northern Europe. Utilizing materials from Christian and Jewish sources, and employing the aid of a computer, the …
The practice of music as an expression of religious philosophy among the East-Ashkenazi Jews
… Special issue on Jewish music Establishing a conceptual framework for the … are established to clarify aspects of East Ashkenazi culture: visual-material, wherein religious ideas and …
Gesaenge de Juden auf der Insel Djerba (Posthumous Works, II)
… without musical examples and photographs) on the musical culture of the venerable Jewish community from the Island of Djerba, off the southern …
The "Proclamation Style" in Hebrew
… and it is not known whether they are prevalent in other Jewish musical traditions. Although previously narrow … ancient and can be attributed to ancient agricultural cultures. These melodies can be seen as a sample of an early …
Jubal in the Middle Ages
… is that there were various inventors of music in different cultures and periods. The figure of Jubal (Genesis 4:21) … information by motifs from the Apocrypha and Hellenistic Jewish literature, and in apposition to the Greek culture-heroes of music (beginning with Isidore of Seville). …
The Archives of the World Centre for Jewish Music in Palestine, 1936-1940, at the Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem
… The World Centre for Jewish Music was established in 1936 by German and Austrian … wanting to create a place in the land of Israel where Jewish compositions from different periods and genres would … to the Centre out of a belief in the renaissance of Israeli culture and also out of fears of the future of Jewish …