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James Levy
… The musical lore of James Levy's family has deep roots in … 1957. During all these years, he never forgot his father's musical tradition. Many years later, around the age of … and fifty liturgical songs and prayers, many with several musical variations. It is accompanied by a notebook with …
Mapping of German Liturgical Music
… out in the framework of the project "German-Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections" funded by the German-Israeli …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… sounded beautiful to me, loved singing and had a very good musical memory, excellent for remembering melodies that he … left Libau in the spring of 1901 for Berlin to continue my musical education. Hebrew version: He kept his promise and … The compositions he gave us to sing were of very mediocre musical value, although some expressed the Jewish sentiment. …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern Jewish musical research. Idelsohn’s life traversed several … artifacts that still define in many ways the Jewish musical imagination in both its scholarly and popular forms. … to move or touch anything in his study. Father had a musical baritone voice. His study, at the back of the house, …
Eikha yashvah badad (Lamentations 1:1-4 and 5:21)
… read in public according to the masoretic accents. The AAB musical form of the melody reflects the particular division …
Alekhem 'eda qedoshah
… of the Temple of Jerusalem, are one of the oldest musical layers in the Western Sephardi liturgical …
Divre Yermiyahu (Jeremiah 1:1-9)
… Av. The subdued, mournful style of this melody recalls the musical characteristics of the chanting of q innot (dirges) …
Mi hakham ve-yishmor eleh, Qaddish and Barekhu
… ha-mevorakh ("Bless the Blessed Lord!"). This tripartite musical unit is a characteristic of the Portuguese …
Shema' qoli
… the ancient pedigree of some items in the High Holiday musical repertoire of the Western Sephardi liturgy (compare …
Mizmor le-david (Psalm 29)
… Amsterdam by the choir. The last verse receives a special musical treatment, a sort of cadential pattern that leads to …