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A.Z. Idelsohn and the Study of the Traditional Pronunciations of Hebrew (Hebrew)
… well-known for his pioneering work in the field of Hebrew musicology, primarily for his recording and research of the music of the various Jewish ethnic groups, presented to the scholarly world in …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Composer Deborah Lynn Friedman (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an … role in dramatically shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. … 1990s as a signifier of hope and optimism. Moreover, recent research, such as that of De Clerc and Temperley, points out …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… remembered for his contributions to the liturgical music of American Reform Judaism and his work on Biblical … library at the New York campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, was “Six Songs from the Jewish … Joel Engel in 1909 – but this is an error. Michael Lukin, a researcher at the Hebrew University, looked deeply into …
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 … Basin ve Yayin, Ottoman-Turkish Sephardic Culture Research Center, 2009. (Book, 5 CDs and DVD) The piyyut … connected to the performance practices of the local Jewish-Portuguese community. To the contrary, Salomon’s …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… from archives around the world offer unique vistas on past musical cultures. These findings show the extent to which … for Performing Arts) conducted by Roumen Tsonev in the CD Jewish Songs from Bulgaria . The song itself starts at … in our new production shows the extent to which detailed research complicates the paths of transmission of the songs …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… focusing on changes introduced to the text and the music within different historical contexts and local Jewish traditions. “E h ad mi yodea” is a cumulative song. … and Holtzafpel 2001, no. 10, pp. 68-74), and led some researchers to wonder if this is the original formulation of …
Steiger
… A term in use in the European Jewish musical tradition to refer to the different modal types of … improvisation by the cantor or the leader of a service. The research of the traditional music of Nus h ei Hatefila only …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… wars and vicissitudes in Spain that greatly affected the Jewish communities there. In 1140 Ibn Ezra immigrated to … locales, Ibn Ezra wrote Biblical commentary, poetry, research on Hebrew grammar, writings concerning Jewish … from B’nai Jeshrun: http://www.bj.org/spiritual-life/music-of-bj/invitation-to-piyyut-na/el-eliyahu/ Literary …
Hora
… and the second with duple. Hora as a Klezmer Genre The Jewish Klezmers adopted both kinds of genres and terms. The … r Moshe (Musa) Berlin (b. 1937), who took his tunes from musical scores and records published in the U.S., used the … According to Ze'ev Walter Feldman , a musicologist and researcher of the 'Ashkenazi Dance,' the circular form and …