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Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, … and below each word. However, the chant also has clear musical features, with a variety of scales, motives, … in both sections as one of the main sources for the modern musicological use of the term. Dalia Cohen (2006, …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… obscurity and are only known to experts in the history of modern Hebrew song. Na’aleh L’artzeinu is only dimly … culture, the contemporary klezmer scene, and even into modern synagogue liturgical practice. As the first published … his first efforts in what would be a life-long devotion to modern Hebrew song. In 1922 Binder began his position as …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… song, reflecting once again the intricate ways in which Jewish repertoires were constructed by diverse agents in the modern period. One of the recordings of this song that we … section of the Jacob Michael Collection of Jewish Music at the National Sound Archives of the Israel National …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… studying them shows the complex process through which modern favorites in the Jewish repertoire were constructed … Kisselgof and his colleagues attempted to provide modern Jewish families with educational songs for all the … Abraham Goldfaden (right), for many the “founder” of modern Yiddish theatre. Indeed, the melody appears for the …
Vemen vestu zingen, vemen? Leibu Levin Performs in Yiddish
… in southwestern Ukraine). This new production of the Jewish Music Research Centre prepared around the centennial of … … Archival recordings … Bukovina … Historical recordings … Modern Yiddish stage … Non-religious Yiddish music … USSR … …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… It also exemplifies the elusiveness of the symbols of modern nation-states. From the outset, we note that this is … legislative design. Because of the “folk” origins of its music and the re-writing of Naftali Herz Imber’s poem … culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its …
Karev Yom
… The interview was held at the initiative of the Israeli music connoisseur and collector Dudi Patimer. Speaking live … deep baritone voice, Bikel reprimanded Gazit in highbrow modern Hebrew by saying that “the Hebrew language is still … of the earliest commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… created a number of songs about poverty and how the Jewish community “dealt with economic problems on the … begins with the introductory “khapt im, nempt im” line. The music to this opening section is more dense than in the rest … their performance on Kremer’s recording. Listening to this modern version, one can hear that the structure of the song …
The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor: Musical Authority, Cultural Investment.
… Examines the office of the modern Amrican cantor through a detailed ethnography of the School of Sacred Music of the Hebrew Union College with emphasis on the … Indiana University Press … … 2009 … The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor: Musical Authority, Cultural Investment. …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… known as “Jerusalem-Sephardic,” which originated among the Jewish communities scattered throughout the Ottoman Empire … th centuries and developed under Turkish-Ottoman and Arabic musical influences. Contents The tradition of … the 20 th century and still exists today. Two central, modern figures in this tradition, that is, composers of …