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Meir Shimon Geshuri
… residents at the time. In his unpublished memoir, which is structured as a musicologist’s Bildungsroman ('From the … childhood in the all-Christian Dańdówka in terms of extreme musical isolation and alienation. Hendel-Malka, Geshuri’s … Hassidic music later in his life. At the same time, his musical education in Berlin and Dresden opened before him …
Sholom Secunda
… and C. Once in New York, Mr. Wolf began to manage Sholom's musical career, setting up engagements in a number of … career came to a venerable halt. However, he continued his musical and general education at Eron Prep School, and began … for Jewish Composers, Publishers and Songwriters. The structure of their organization was similar to that of the …
Mordekhai Hershman
… the porous line separating secular from the religious musical practices led by great cantors of the time such as … Isaiah (2:1-4) and the uniquely expressive through-composed musical score (8:30 minutes long, published in New York by … the synagogue needed to expand to its present-day grand structure. His relationship with that congregation continued …
Isadore Freed
… Freed headed the Composition Department at the Julius Harrt Musical Foundation in Hartford , Connecticut . Two years … rooting the Jewish modes in a Western music theoretical structure, Freed stressed the subtle difference inherent in …
Elio Piattelli
… from the University of Rome in 1931, he pursued his innate musicality studying in Rome with Maestro Cesare Dobici … is a first attempt to locate, catalog and analyze his musical compositions and other of his scholarly interests … following the Jewish liturgical calendar. Their melodic structure indexes the diverse Jewish liturgical festivals …
Israel Adler
… de Musicologie at the Sorbonne where he combined Jewish and musical studies. During his thirteen-year sojourn in Paris … 19th century, published a few years later as La pratique musicale savante dans quelques communautés juives en Europe … Israeli institutions of higher learning laid down the infrastructure to materialize the Idelsohnian endeavor. At the …
Simha Arom
… His books include African Polyphony and Polyrhythm: Musical Structure and Methodology (1991). In the 1960s, Simha Arom … the liturgical music traditions of Ethiopian Jews and the musical heritage of the Jews of Djerba. Arom has been a …
The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Late Manifestation of the Musical Trope
… new and prolongued pieces into the traditional motivic structure. The 'Fantasia' pieces found in manuscripts and … The author describes the structure of the fantasia as a musical form and the compositional techniques involved in its creation. In addition, extra-musical elements, such as exegesis and deep meanings …
Toward A Clearer Definition of the Magen Avot Mode
… for a definition of the mode. The model is based on the musical characteristics from which various motifs and motivic variants are drawn. It then explores the structure they create, the degree of freedom in which they …
Hebraeisch-orientalischer Melodienschatz, 09[E]: Der Volksgesang der osteuropaeischen Juden [The Folk Song of the East European Jews]
… Jewish folk songs, in that the emphasis is on the structure of the music instead of the text. Musical considerations shaped Idelsohn's classification and …