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Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… is nowadays one of the most popular songs in the Middle East. It is a muwwashshah, “girdle” song, a … “Fog al-Nakhal” also appears in the repertoire of several Middle Eastern communities and nations. In the context of … of “Fog al Nakhal” that include alternating solo-chorus passages, Fakhri and his chorus sing simultaneously throughout …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… 1913 in Ottoman Palestine from Jewish singers belonging to Middle Eastern communities living in Jerusalem. Isaac Lurie … recordings are among the earliest surviving specimens of Middle Eastern Jewish musical traditions. By nature of the …
The Idelsohn Project
… Jewish intellectual life, suspended between Europe and the Middle East; and the understudied topic of nationalist …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… to all the children of the diaspora [bnei ha-galut] in the Middle East. Back then it was hard to understand why this … Bible in its real form and in its entirety. Beyond the passages and the fragmented verses that are quoted in the … of Jewish national renewal in Idelsohn’s eyes. These are images typical of the writing of Second ‘aliyah intellectuals, …
El lifne [sic] har Galil (shir hatunah)
… piece is Yigdal Elohim hai ve-yishtabah . In Sephardic and Middle Eastern traditions this anthem is sung at the end of …
Nehemia Allony
… studies, literature, language and Hebrew poetry in the Middle Ages, founder and director of the Institute of Microfilmed …
Nahôn libbo is hujire – Whole-heartedly is the fearful believer
… of the famed musicologist. Nahôn libbo opens the album’s middle sub-section, which seems to address the subject of … Worte and number 8, A nigun on a soff that complete the middle sub-section of the work. Idelsohn 1923b, no. 193 …
Iftah Adonai libo (nigun sheni)/ Yom ze (zemirot le-Shabat)
… but a piece not catalogued, that ends abruptly in the middle. … From the Collection of Isaac Lurie … Iftah Adonai …
Three fragments from Zemirot le-Shabat and Havdalah
… the Sabbath meal. The performance ends abruptly in the middle of the first stanza and moves to the second piece, …
Piris Eliyahu
… of the Bar-Ilan university, and taught in the Centre for Middle Eastern Classical Music in Musrara neighborhood, … Jerusalem. In 2007 he established the department for Middle Eastern Classical Music in Head college, and a year … composer and musicologist … Composer … Eastern Caucasus … Dagestan … Mountain Jews … Musician … Ethnomusicology … Piris …