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A.Z. Idelsohn and the Study of the Traditional Pronunciations of Hebrew (Hebrew)
… well-known for his pioneering work in the field of Hebrew musicology, primarily for his recording and research of the music of the various Jewish ethnic groups, presented to the scholarly world in his monumental …
The Karaite Jews of Israel Reconstruct their Heritage
… the methodological concepts of 'emics' and 'etics' in ethnomusicology Marcia Herndon (1993: 67) has observed that 'it … in the theoretical implications of case studies of the role music plays in displaced societies (Reyes-Schramm 1986; … the deliberate purpose of observing and recording their groups' practices in order to preserve their endangered …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… history is complex, revealing a number of interrelated musical and textual settings. Looking into the information … of different composers, such as the prominent Iraqi-Jewish musician Salah al-Kuwaity (1908-1986), and in some cases it … and textual adaptations catering to different ethnic groups, religions, families, and individuals sharing a …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… the earliest surviving specimens of Middle Eastern Jewish musical traditions. By nature of the technological … opportunity to validate historical theories of musical change that have been based solely on the … The recordings are all of male voices singing solo or in groups without instrumental accompaniment. One puzzling …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one appeared … Rabinovitz and he took upon himself to teach me the music theory and voice training. Yiska’s memoire: [3a] He … all of the synagogue music from each of the exisitng ethnic groups, for instance, the Yemenites, Babylonians, Persians, …
Enrico Fink
… Enrico Fink has carried out his music and musical research interests together with his ongoing … to contemporary, participating in and leading major groups and orchestras, but also giving classes, workshops, …
1. Oh Lovely Parrot!
… the hunter’s attack they scattered, dividing into separate groups. The group founded by ten parrots (signifying the …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… study aims to trace the unique characteristics of a type of music unparalleled in the central-eastern European … Hasidic repertoire.” Although the dominant function of this music was not aesthetic contemplation but rather the … constant migrations, along with marriages between the two groups, generated an awareness of the stylistic differences, …
Yaakov Huri
… relations dominating the encounters between European ethnomusicologists and their subjects of inquiry in Israel. Our … (from 1952 onwards) sought in Israel for a place where the musical tradition of their ancestors as they knew it was … as cantor not only by Babylonian Jews, but by other ethnic groups in Jerusalem, Greeks, Persians, Kurds and more. For …
Ezra Barnea
… Above all Barnea was an educator, but also a synagogue musician, paytan and cantor, an expert on the Jerusalem … acquainted with the prayer customs of different ethnic groups. He also learned and became expert in the bakashot … repertoire of Jerusalem, a repository of paraliturgical music in which different Oriental traditions of piyyut …