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Max Lempel
… Service (later on Kol Israel Radio) where he arranged music and accompanied many singers. He also taught for many … at the Jerusalem Conservatory, later the Rubin Academy of Music . Sources: Hirshberg, Jehoash. Music in the Jewish … Palestine 1880-1948: A Social History . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995, pp. 95-96. Lühe, Barbara von der. Die Musik …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… role in dramatically shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. … career began in the 1960s, developing out of the folk music and communal singing tradition of Jewish summer camps. … way of interpreting Shema’ Koleinu. Her melody not only expresses the fear of the worshipper calling out to the …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… of the opening stanza, is the refrain (the same words and music are repeated) and x, the last line of the rest of the … practices evolved prior to the invention of the printing press. Among the novelties that emerged in the past decade … Shofet kol ha’aretz.” This is the earliest mention of the music of our poem, and obviously it indicates that in the …
Assaf Shelleg
… Musicologist Assaf Shelleg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) studies modern and contemporary musics with a particular interest in art music written by … and the Soundtrack of Israeli History (Oxford University Press, 2014), in addition to Theological Stains: Art Music …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… and below each word. However, the chant also has clear musical features, with a variety of scales, motives, … In the present paper, I will provide a new perspective on musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern … context for religious performance, inspiring and expressing a state of religious spirituality” (2000, 14). The …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… remembered for his contributions to the liturgical music of American Reform Judaism and his work on Biblical … In fact, when composer Herbert Fromm sought to best express the power of Israeli folk music, he used the melody of … songbooks published in Israel and has no listing on the impressively extensive website of early Hebrew song, …
Yonatan Malin
… Professor in the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music. His research explores musical structure and meaning a wide variety of genres … the German Lied was published in 2010 by Oxford University Press. He has published articles in Music Analysis and Music …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… men's songs (including liturgical and para-liturgical music). The repertoire also deals with themes that reflect … life, as well as material and corporeal subjects. [1] The music in these songs reflects the feelings and state of the … h enna ceremony created a space where women could freely express themselves on a number of subjects. These themes …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… legislative design. Because of the “folk” origins of its music and the re-writing of Naftali Herz Imber’s poem … circumstances in which Imber’s poem was shaped and the musical contrafactum (adaption of a preexisting melody to a … in live performances to the (un)critical acclaim of the press. This show, which is neither “up-to-date” nor …
Karev Yom
… The interview was held at the initiative of the Israeli music connoisseur and collector Dudi Patimer. Speaking live … and movie actor, entertainer, and folk song revivalist. Music reviewers stresses his Yiddish or international … cosmopolitanism and his artistic ambitions could not find expression in a besieged community bound to a war of survival …