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The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, 1970), Hanoch Avenary set a new … texts suggested a comprehensive method for addressing the musical aspects of Hebrew liturgical poetry from an … periods corresponds to the poetic stanza.” This compositional model originated in Al-Andalus, and stems from …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… return to this feature later. Right now, let us move to the musical performance of the three verses. The precious Leo Levi recorded collection of Italian Jewish musical traditions includes four versions of Elohim … article, one sees how the allure of Rossi’s Hebrew compositions to modern scholars impacts the perception of …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… from archives around the world offer unique vistas on past musical cultures. These findings show the extent to which … characteristic of the twentieth-century Bulgarian school of composition. His modern polyphonic arrangement was recorded …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … urban shtick of Porter’s and Kern’s songs; or the compositional virtuosity of any of the above” (Greenberg …
Moshe Cordova
… m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our knowledge … career as a synagogue singer and composer. Parallel to his musical career he developed a business in the field of … substantial collections of scores of more than one hundred compositions by Cordova and other Ottoman Muslim and Jewish …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… downloadable program notes on the genesis of this work, musical analysis of the composition, and an extensive biographical article. Racheli …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… of the collection, including, when available, the musical incipits. A rather large team of librarians, experts … erased) and all the accompanying formular s containing the musical and textual transcriptions of the songs would become … and of the Ukrainian, and additional recordings of Jewish compositions. These recordings were done at the beginning of …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… German music as a “universal” language against which other musical nationalisms in Europe defined themselves. … voices in synagogue choirs are an important aspect of this musical innovation. Third, the use of instrumental music, … whose authority was acquired through their vocal and compositional skills, proficiency in the repertoire and …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… 1999 Finally, a facsimile of this original 1946 musical notation accompanied by Beregovski’s own comments to … muzykalʹnyi folʹklor v 5-ti tomakh na CD-diskakh [Jewish Musical Folklore in 5 volumes on 5 CDs] (Kiev, 2013, CD4, … Nadel had in front of him a specific source for this choral composition. In the January 1908 issue of the important …
Curt Sachs
… Born in Berlin, Sachs studied piano, music theory and composition as a youth in that city. He began a career as an … the Staatliche Instrumentensammlung, a large collection of musical instruments. He reorganised and restored much of the … , probably the most comprehensive survey of musical instruments in 200 years. As one of the founders of …