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Assessing Abraham Zvi Idelsohn’s Legacy
… Idelsohn’s Legacy: Eighty Years after the Publication of Jewish Music in its Historical Development The year 2009 … the development of Idelsohn’s aesthetic vision of Israeli musical culture during his years in the yishuv and afterward. Noah …
Contemporary American Jewish Music
… Contemporary American Jewish Music Chair: Ruth HaCohen Joel E. Rubin, Department … as Americans, Jews and musicians in a landscape of multi-musicality. In its initial phase, the repertoire and style … non-Jews alike, the idea of a thriving secular Yiddish song culture seems absurd. Most scholarly discussions suggest …
Bloch: Known and Unknown
… was an outcome of a complex response to Wagnerian racial-musical theory via the intermediary of Houston Stuart … relationship to Wagner, in that his expression of the ‘Jewish soul’ and use of Jewish traditional elements, both … a wider phenomenon of negotiation of identities and cultures. Dalia Atlas, Technion, Haifa, Head of The Ernest …
The Jewish Bloch
… On the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of his Death The Jewish Bloch Chair: Malcom Miller Zecharia Plavin, Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance Bloch's Jewish-Hebrew musical narrative of Jewish Cycle and the late phase of … generated 'nation-portraits' in view of the music-cum-culture-oriented commentators. Such a cultural discourse …
Gesture, Dance and Melody in Traditional Ashkenazi Culture
… The Fifteenth World Congress Of Jewish Studies Jerusalem Session: Ashkenazi traditions: the … expressive dance movement can be correlated to a number of musical parameters involving melodic density, rhythmic … … Gesture, Dance and Melody in Traditional Ashkenazi Culture …
In Which Direction Do Hebrews Play Music?: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Musical Aesthetics of Zionism
… The Fifteenth World Congress Of Jewish Studies Jerusalem Special panel (Plenary of … history of cultural Zionism and the formation of Israeli culture. Scholars of Hebrew literature have focused … in his self-conscious search for an authentic national musical aesthetic. Put differently, how and why did Idelsohn …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… (petition) is a religious practice maintained by several Jewish communities. It consists of gatherings that occur … in that the piyyutim are arranged according to the maqamat (musical modes) in use in the court music of the Ottoman … his piyyutim to be sung are borrowed from the musical culture of the Sephardi Jews of Spain (tunes of …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… development against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon comprises … language like pentatonics, but uses a strongly profiled Jewish prayer mode whose foremost characteristic is a stock …
Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… From the upcoming release of JMRC's-Anthology of Musical Traditions in Israel: The Historical Recordings of … Judeo-Spanish speaking Jews. The old traditional Ottoman Jewish community ruled by rabbinical authority was shattered … modernizing trends characterized by an exposure to Western culture (most particularly French), to liberal trends in …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… of digital resources have enhanced the study of the Jewish liturgy helping us to make more accurate assessments … development against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon comprises …