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Rabbi David Buzaglo
… is an opportunity to revive his biography in our website. A musical and rabbinical prodigy since his early days, Rabbi … and early 1940s, Buzaglo capitalized on his exceptional musical abilities and focused less on the rabbinate, in … presence of the Spanish-speaking northern Moroccan Jewish traditions that took roots in Casablanca are noted. His …
Yaakov Huri recordings
… archive , which aimed to systematically document the musical traditions of the Baghdadi Jewish community. The collection …
Ezra Barnea
… the time. Attentive as he was to the variety of liturgical traditions of the Jerusalemite synagogues that surrounded … an institution dedicated to the preservation of the Jewish musical heritage and its dissemination. He engaged in a vigorous effort to document extant Jewish musical traditions, collaborating in this endeavor with the …
A Flowering Debate: A Judeo-Spanish Song (not just) for Tu BiShvat
… Spanish siglo de oro and contemporary Algerian traditions ( Abenójar-Sanjuán 2024 ) and also in the … emerged therefore from a rich multicultural poetic and musical background that can be traced back to the medieval … Mahur in its header (see Figure 2 above ). Evidence of this musical tradition of El debate de las flores is scant. A …
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 … the ninth century in France, musicians from the western traditions have felt that the benefits of pitch and duration …
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 … scales, and melodic patterns of nigunim from Galician traditions brought by Uri Sharvit (1995, xii–xxx) with no …
5. Mi-Pi El (De Boca del Dio)
… representative of the Ottoman and North African Sephardic traditions. These are two tunes of very narrow-range that … in and outside Israel. Among the most important historical musical documents we possess of the melody of ‘Mi-pi El’ is …
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 Gibraltar. Rooted in the Sephardic heritage of … Comprising over 350 songs, it represents a distinctive musical heritage, preserving the melodies of past …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… logic, that they preserved older layers of Jewish musical memory although he did not discount also the … (generically defined as “medieval French chants”). Musically speaking, Minhag Carpentras, as Chants hebraïques … indeed shows a certain allegiance to the Western Sephardic traditions, especially those from Livorno. However, a closer …
Haim Louk
… charismatic teacher who greatly influenced Louk's musical path. At the age of 10, Louk met Rabbi David Buzaglo … Yeshiva), where he was introduced to Ashkenazi cantorial traditions and acquired knowledge of Yiddish. After four … of a school, a position he held for 22 years. Louk's musical career, which began in Morocco, further developed …