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The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… modestly titled “Unsere erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , … Arguing against writers who maintained that the music of Jewish communities can be reduced to a common source, … celebrated), these artistic pieces for solo or choir with instrumental accompaniment where hardly known to the public …
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 … to a dawr and can be divided into several sections: an instrumental prelude, a well-known d u lab in maqam hijaz on …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the … a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector … Yiddish song sung by a Latvian interlocutor, and no. 7, an instrumental “Jewish dance” by a Latvian performer, are …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From 1979 to 1981 Warkov worked … an eminent scholar of music in the Islamic world and of the Jewish musical traditions within it. Warkov wanted to study …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century: The Music of Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras . Syracuse: … Netsky’s Klezmer: Music and Community in Twentieth Century Jewish Philadelphia (2015) and Walter Zev Feldman’s Klezmer: … recorded by people who have become revered as masters of instrumental klezmer music in the 1920s, he embraces the …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… Jewish Music Collections of the Vernadsky National Library of … has attracted the attention of musicians and scholars of Jewish music ever since they resurfaced in the aftermath of … the Vernadsky recordings,” Sholokhova has also been kindly instrumental in guiding this writer in the intricacies of …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to the scholarly … aspect of this musical innovation. Third, the use of instrumental music, most particularly the organ was a …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… volunteer in Meseret , a center that supported traditional Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and music. The neighborhood had grown around an absorption center ( merkaz klita ), where new Jewish immigrants are housed, taught Hebrew, supported in …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… Beregovski, Evreiskie narodnye napevy bez slov [ Jewish Tunes without Words , 1946]: This research was … of its contents in the wider context of Hasidic music research is a desideratum. The present essay, focusing … dancing tune, a testimony of the porosity between vocal and instrumental repertoires of the Eastern European Jewish …
Yaqub Murad al-‘Amari (aka Yaqub Bar-Nay)
… Murad was a multi-instrumentalist employed by the Iraqi Broadcasting Ensemble … occupations out of necessity. Wrote a manuscript on Iraqi music theory but was discouraged by lack of recognition for … at minute 54:47, both recorded by IBA in 1970. Articles: Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited …