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The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… modestly titled “Unsere erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , … 1794). Arguing against writers who maintained that the music of Jewish communities can be reduced to a common … Driven by a nationalist-oriented agenda to constitute a history of Jewish music in Europe which would resonate with …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… in sections according to the different Turkish makam s (musical modes), titled Shirei Israel be-eretz ha-qedem … as the first half of the 18th century: Venice, with its history of Hebrew printing presses and trade; and the … to makam Rast places this version in the realm of Turkish music. Secondly, the title clearly delineates its …
Yonatan Turgeman
… PhD candidate in the Hebrew University Musicology Department, a fellow of the PhD Honors Program in the Mandel School of Advanced Studies, and an active musician ('Avodot Afar'). His dissertation, 'The Science of … discipline. His book, 'The Bridge is Dead: A Theory & Short History of Everyday Songs in Hebrew', was published in 2017 …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, when new forms of expressing Jewishness through music challenged the normative status of traditions of old. … volume 12, album 2 of the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music titled Legend of Toil and Celebration . This album …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records … Such remarks provide little information concerning the music itself, yet they offer valuable insights for the … This question touches upon an important matter – the history of Jewish worship – which seems to have changed over …

The Music of Kurdistan Jews - a Synopsis of their Musical Styles
… of thought in sciences or arts. Its more recent political history has demonstrated the inevitable results of … including a strong tendency towards linguistic as well as musical dialect formation. It is only natural that the musical traditions of Kurdistan Jews should also have been …
Robert Lachmann: His Achievement and His Legacy
… Two memorable anniversaries in the history of Ethnomusicology occurred in 1972: the ninetieth … and means, both scholars became the founders of Comparative Musicology in Israel for both the Jewish and the Arab …

A Jewish Sufi on the Influence of Music
… authors during the mediaeval period on the subject of music, a fair deal of information concerning attitudes … with the 'ethical' and therapeutic properties ascribed to music. The highly interesting ethical treatise … 23205 … Treatise … Moral treatise … Music research … Music history … Jewish music … Jewish music research … A Jewish …

The Musical Passage in Ibn Ezra's "Book of the Garden"
… born in 1055 in Granada and died after 1135. He refers to music in many of his poems, mainly those describing … wine-drinking sessions; he also deals with the theory of music in two of his books: the book on poetic art, Kitab … theory … Compositions … Medieval … Middle Ages … Music history … The Musical Passage in Ibn Ezra's "Book of the …

The Magical and Theurgic Interpretation of Music in Jewish Sources from the Renaissance to Hassidism (Hebrew)
… long series of Jewish texts containing a new evaluation of music as a means of power. This attitude emerges among … Writers like Johanan Allemanno and Isaac Abrabanel describe music in magical terms: by singing and playing one can … Tov, the founder of Hassidism. … Hasidim … 23257 … Music history … Kabbalah … Jewish texts … Music theory … Power of …