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Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… in the Middle East. It is a muwwashshah, “girdle” song, a traditional strophic Arabic form characterized by its … history is complex, revealing a number of interrelated musical and textual settings. Looking into the information … number of different composers, such as the prominent Iraqi-Jewish musician Salah al-Kuwaity (1908-1986), and in some …
Moshe "Musa" Berlin
… in 1938 in Tel Aviv to a family of Hasidut Modzits . Musa’s musical capabilities were discovered at the age of 6 when he … with the clarinet player Giora Feidman and played in varied Jewish events such as weddings but also in religious events … life and work exists in Yaakov Mazor’s book: The Klezmer Tradition in the Land of Israel Interviews, conversations, …
El Shokhen Shamayim - A Recorded Pearl of Andalusian Hebrew Music from Algeria Recovered
… Meanwhile, we hope you enjoy this preview. The Algerian Jewish singer Gabriel Sayag recorded the piyyut El shokhen … [makam] Ushak, a reference to the Ottoman music genre and musical mode used by the singers. The song appears later on … The skillful pianist accompanies him in unison in the traditional Andalusian style from Western Algeria. While the …
Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
… The Jewish Music Research Centre mourns the recent passing of … southern border with Hungary) on June 14, 1922 to a traditional Jewish family, Herzog was introduced to music by … His ties to the national religious movement and his musical and musicological upbringing soon opened doors of …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… The collection of historical Jewish field recordings at the Vernadsky National Library of … the earliest surviving specimens of Middle Eastern Jewish musical traditions. By nature of the technological circumstances in …
An Ashkenazi version of “Ehad mi yode’a” in…Arabic
… Bialystok), refers in this excerpt to his family’s Passover tradition that included an Aramaic version of “Ehad mi … origins and circulation of “Ehad mi yode’a” throughout the Jewish world (including the question of whether it was … remarks refer to the two main sharqi versions documented musically, the ones from the ancient cities of Aleppo …
Call for papers
… Yuval, the yearbook of the Jewish Music Research Center at The Hebrew University of … since December of 2019. Dedicated to the study of Jewish musical traditions and their cultural habitats, the new Yuval …
Aims and Scope
… Dedicated to the study of Jewish musical traditions and their habitats, Yuval welcomes articles …
Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs
… , Judith R. Cohen and Risto Pekka Pennanen In 2008 the Jewish Music Research Centre released a 4-CD package … public interest in the role commercial recordings had on musical traditions from the early twentieth century, that production …
7. Una cierta hija (Jacob Algava)
… A love song unique to the tradition of Salonica preserved in very fragmentary … fragment, see NSA Y 09506(1) by Shelomo Venezia. The musical structure of each stanza consists of three melodic …