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The Magical and Theurgic Interpretation of Music in Jewish Sources from the Renaissance to Hassidism (Hebrew)
… Since the end of the 15th century we find a long series of Jewish texts containing a new evaluation of music as a means of power. This attitude emerges among Italian Jewish authors and seems to be influenced by parallel views …
Three Musical Ceremonies for Hôšanā Rabbah in the Jewish Community of Casale Monferrato (1732, 1733, 1735) (Hebrew)
… source of information as regards the musical events at the Jewish community of Casale Monferrato during the years … it then probes into the questions of the authors of the texts, the place of performance and the initiator of the … … Score, Music scores … Cantata … 9426 … Hosha'nah Rabbah … Jewish communities … Manuscripts … Eighteenth (18th) Century …
The Rules of the Oral Transmission of the Mishnah According to the Aleppo Tradition
… governing the oral transmission of the Mishnah, the Jewish Oral Law. This compilation was originally orally … after being fixed in writing, it was read and studied in Jewish communities without the aid of graphic signs such as the accents system used for reading the biblical texts. The vital importance of the Mishnah in the …
Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardi Melodies of Qinot for the Ninth of Av
… of qinot melodies for the Ninth of Av (the date on the Jewish calendar that commemorates the destruction of the … hope for the restitution of the Temple. Most of the texts in this genre included in the Sephardi liturgy were … order of the four fasts.” … 9415 … Sephardi … Sephardic Jewish people … Western Sephardi tradition … Sephardi …
Traces of Jewish Musicians in the Writings of Lomazzo
… The discovery of traces of Jewish musicians in Lomazzo’s Trattato dell’Arte Della … Pittura would no doubt be of interest to historians of Jewish music as well as to art historians in general. … the origin of these traditions since we generally have no texts on which we can depend. For this reason even …
Bernardo Feuer
… exclusively synagogue material and included arrangements of Jewish folk songs, choral parts of operas in the original … During this period Feuer also taught music in different Jewish schools in Buenos Aires, where he also conducted the … which still bears his name. Feuer composed works based on texts by Jewish poets such as Chaim Nachman Bialik, Isaac …
The Liturgy of Beta Israel: Music of the Ethiopian Jewish Prayer
… of Operation Moses when a significant proportion of the Jewish population of Ethiopia was flown from the Sudan to … in Jerusalem, Machon Meir, to familiarize them with general Jewish history and Orthodox religious law ( Halacha ) that regulates the private sphere among Jewish citizens in the State of Israel. These religious …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… of the Land of Israel (1882-1946) . … Not all traditional Jewish holiday songs have survived in their original … Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini, which used to be performed in Jewish communities on Purim, especially in Germany, is one … region is a Hebrew song printed in the anthology of Hebrew texts for the young, edited by Mendel E. Stern, titled …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a performing stage, even though major … one of the main home rituals. The Haggadah , the order of texts recounting the Exodus from Egypt, is read before and …
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 … shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. Friedman’s compositional … of its festive character, is used to express ideas and texts related to glory, kingdom, and lordship. However,the …