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Musical Tradition and its Transmitters between Synagogue and Church
… with two tasks: (1) to examine the concept of 'national folksong' and its applicability in the instance of the musical tradition of the old Synagogue; (2) the attitude of Western music historians to the question of Jewish influence on early Church music. As will be seen, we …
Persistence and Transformation of a Sephardi - Penitential Hymn under Changing Environmental Conditions
… ' … The comparison of a great number of variants of a folk melody was undertaken by Bela Bartok at the beginning … early twenties, he confronted different local variants of Jewish Sephardi melodies. He confined himself to very few, … upon the comparison of tunes influenced by different music cultures. Idelsohn did not content himself with the …
Yemenite Qasīd Songs (Hebrew)
… Besides the types of Jewish poetry in Yemen - nasid, sirah, zaffeh, haduyo and … the other types in content and in language. The poems are folk songs, light, entertaining, and amusing in content. … and they provided entertainment through their content and music. The qasid were sung at the end of parties, once the …
Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… Adler has shown in a lifetime of work, the history of Jewish music is really a set of complex, interlocking histories. … the only surviving footage of spontaneous pre-Holocaust folk choreography. In the present brief contribution, I will …
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 … century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records … the same melody. The melody itself presents a mixture of a folk tune and a psalmodic chant. It is simple, easily …
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, … of David Edelstadt from the earliest edition of his songs, Folks Gedikhte , New York, Hebrew Publications Company, …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent … and died on April 30, 2020. He came, as do many Moroccan Jewish performing artists and composers, from a family of … does not mean what he says.” Oz further defined him as “a folk clown, he sings as he speaks, without censorship.” …
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 … connected to the performance practices of the local Jewish-Portuguese community. To the contrary, Salomon’s … of the Sephardic Jews of Tetuan and Morocco ,” Track 09, Folkways Records, 1983. This relatively early recording …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone … made my way up to AMAR to search for historical records of Jewish musicians from Aleppo, the city which, for a long … how the dabke , one of the region’s most popular folk dances, belonged to the Palestinian national struggle: …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, 1970), Hanoch Avenary set a new … in Hebrew) for the Seventeenth of Tammuz, a fast day in Jewish tradition marking the breach of Jerusalem’s … the “Western” melody, i.e. Sulzer’s, is similar to German folk melodies, some documented as early as the fifteenth …