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Book Review: Music’s Making - The Poetry of Music; The Music of Poetry
… me at all. To the contrary, I would like to hear a few musical things about it. There was nothing to read about … I would indeed like to know what objection my opponents, musically—objectively, have against my work. So please … literature. | Music theory –Philosophy. | Music--Religious aspects – Judaism. If we compare the headings and the book’s …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… experiences, it was widely appreciated for its beauty, musical features, and spiritual power, emerging from … and rhythmic qualities. These two functions—the extramusical as the primary and the aesthetic as the … emerged. Although these displaced communities retained some aspects of their older musical traditions, the broad …
Shabbat and Year Cycle Songs from the Collection of James Levy
… reflects James Levy's profound connection to his father's musical legacy and the enduring cultural traditions of … Comprising over 350 songs, it represents a distinctive musical heritage, preserving the melodies of past generations and the unique aspects of the Gibraltarian tradition. See the biography of …
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. … archive at the National Library of Israel, covered certain aspects of Idelsohn’s Jerusalem period (1907-1921, with some …
A Liturgy within the Liturgy: The German Torah Service in Past and Present
… framework of the collaborative project German-Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections funded by the German-Israeli … event endowed with pomp and circumstance. The dramatic musical evolution of this service is one of the topics … the evolution of the Torah service illuminates less-studied aspects of Jewish modernity. Changing patterns of …
Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs
… public interest in the role commercial recordings had on musical traditions from the early twentieth century, that … ago Sunday, November 22, 2020, 7 p.m. Hadass Pal-Yarden : musical direction, vocals Yaniv Ovadia : baglama Eliyahu … Rivka 2011b >>> “From Written Text to Folksong: On Some Aspects of the Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) Cancionero on the Eve …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… tourists to Ethiopian culture. Traditional Ethiopian musical instruments including the krar (harp) , masinqo (one … scholarship, much of which was focused on the Jewish aspects of the community’s culture, or alternatively, had … Jews into hegemonic Jewish Israeliness. Studying secular musical traditions that Beta Israel had shared with their …
Music, Muslims and Jews
… Jewish-Muslim encounter was intense. Shared Muslim-Jewish [musical] spaces (regardless of ethnicities) have become the … It will consolidate materials that highlight different aspects of the musical lives Jews in/from Arab countries, Turkey, Iran and …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… Similarly, Rubin’s study relies heavily on minute musical detail—including intricate discussions of form and … he embraces the idea that canonical figures can define a musical style, and that a ready community will receive and … presenting a couple of paragraphs each on numerous aspects of klezmer history and performance alongside …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… to Mahler, according to Tesler-Mabé, is not only a musical and personal issue. Mahler, he argues, deeply affected Unger because he musically expressed a shared German-Jewish experience of … of sacrificial transcendence.” (Sacks 2013, 113). These aspects are excluded from Tesler-Mabé’s view, most likely …