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The Performance Practice of the Rig-Veda: A Musical Expression of Excited Speech
… importance and not to be separated from the text. The musician, observing the Vedic cantillation especially that … it a special place among the various kinds of musical expression of the world, and it has been the object …
Orality as Religious Ideal: The Music of East-European Jewish Prayer
… As a consequence of this attitude, great compositions of music - such as those of Beethoven - were often imagined as … the mind of the artist and that idea was believed to be inexpressible in any real form. To this thinking, performance, … … Eastern Europe … Prayer … Jewish Prayer … Jewish … Jewish music … Religious music … Orality as Religious Ideal: The …
Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardi Melodies of Qinot for the Ninth of Av
… Temple in Jerusalem) constitutes one of the most ancient musical repositories in the Sephardi liturgy. Of particular musical richness are the qinot of the Sephardi communities … of the tribulations of Israel in the exile and the expression of messianic hope for the restitution of the …
Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… has shown in a lifetime of work, the history of Jewish music is really a set of complex, interlocking histories. … of a given Jewish community and time in terms of its musical life. One type of situation, which I … with strong ties of family and sentiment produced an expressive system that spanned 'the old home' and 'the new …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… of the ‘Akedah narrative in Ashkenazi culture, as expressed through the poems that were sung to Niggun ‘Akedah. … 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 …
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. …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent … one of the most distinguished and long-standing Moroccan musicians in Israel. This short note prepared by JMRC … draws among other sources from Dr. Christopher Silver’s impressions following his 2011 encounter, in company 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 … 18th century: Venice, with its history of Hebrew printing presses and trade; and the Western port city of Livorno, … to makam Rast places this version in the realm of Turkish music. Secondly, the title clearly delineates its …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… modestly titled “Unsere erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , an insert of the Berlin-based periodical Die jüdische Presse . Birnbaum introduces in it the score of Kol … 1794). Arguing against writers who maintained that the music of Jewish communities can be reduced to a common …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone … famous record is in fact by no means famous, I use this expression to highlight its centrality to this article as well … stored in the shelves of the Lebanese Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research (AMAR). Located in the little …