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Paradigms of Arabic Modes in the Genizah Fragment Cambridge T.S. N.S. 90,4
… familiarly of the 'Genizah Folk.' … 9433 … Medieval … Middle Ages … Cairo Genizah … Geniza … Egypt … Jewish History … …

The Musical Passage in Ibn Ezra's "Book of the Garden"
… … Poems … Music … Music theory … Compositions … Medieval … Middle Ages … Music history … The Musical Passage in Ibn Ezra's …

Collectanea Concerning Music in the Hebrew Manuscript London, British Library, Or. 10878 (Hebrew)
… … Hebrew … Music theory … Judeo-Arabic … Medieval … Middle Ages … Music Treatise … Treatise … Collectanea Concerning …

Ancient Music in the Modern Classroom
… to the first 39,000 years of music, dedicating some 200 pages to music of the last millennium (Chailley 1975; … music. When Gustave Reese published his Music in the Middle Ages in 1940, the oldest example of musical notation …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… after generation of Jews in various vernacular languages, in both oral and written forms (Spiegel … which was in practice in his days, originated in the Middle Ages: “the tune was customary in the fourteenth … the latter, Levi agrees that the melody originates in the Middle Ages, and he mentions the possibility of its being …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… the largest non-European record company active in the Middle East during the phonograph era; [1] from here … from the Nahda period and/or the liturgical practices of Middle Eastern Jews. While everyone from the Jewish side was … the biography of “ Yom Yom Odeh ” that the following pages unfold is mediated by two main things : the famous …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… the order of qinot of some Sephardic communities in the Middle East, such as Turkey, Syria and Jerusalem, as shown … Avot Synagogue in Jerusalem. He sang in a variety of languages and styles, sacred and secular in Neo-Aramaic (the …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis collection . Middleton WI: A-R editions, 2014. Jewish Folk Songs from the … a survey of Jewish culture in Latvia, where several languages (Latvian, Russian, Hebrew and Yiddish) usually impede … language of culture and commerce had been German since the Middle Ages for Jews and non-Jews alike,” while “in the …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… process. Differences between diverse local versions and lineages of transmission crystallized into several minhagim … to satisfy the expanding demand. Many unique liturgical passages, whose pedigree and paths of transmission remain to be … Harrán (ed.), Salamone Rossi – Opera Omnia , 13 vols. Middleton: American Institute of …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… in his enthusiasm for his subject. At his outset, three pages of his preface are given to an exordium of the words … America, but individuals generally walk placidly down the middle of avenue of human experience within the limits sanctified by mid-twentieth century middle USA. Philip Roth, in his Operation Shylock , points …