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Shir hama’alot - The umbilical cord between liturgical and domestic soundspheres in Ashkenazi culture
… the typical melodies of the yearly cycle was a widespread musical custom of German-speaking Jews. [2] In many ways … emphasized how the domestic and public spheres shared a musical repertory. By the second half of the twentieth century, when many German Jewish liturgical traditions fell into oblivion, the original melodies of the …
Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean
… songs, their language and literary content as well as the musical styles of the melodies. You can download MP3s at … and edited by Alfred A. Zara and Robert Bedford as Traditions and customs of the Sephardic Jews of Salonica . … Edwin | סרוסי, אדוין 1990 “The Turkish Makam in the Musical Culture of the Ottoman Jews,” Israel Studies in …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… world strenuously denied Jews entry, Russia’s greatest musical academy welcomed them with open arms. Picture 1: … myth. For the various contemporary explanations for Jewish musical achievement that circulated in the early twentieth … Heskes, Passport to Jewish music: Its History, Culture, and Traditions (Cedarhurst, New York: Tara Publications, 1997), …
La Gallarda matadora
… the Month is dedicated to Sephardic music and flamenco, two traditions that crystallized in the Iberian Peninsula and … primary reasons for this link is the similarity between the musical languages of the two genres. Fusions between … Sephardic music and flamenco were inspired by a few pioneer musical projects carried out over the past four decades that …
Sirba
… refers to the term in question. It also indicates whether musical notation or sound recordings are included in the … and sirba or other brisk tune are common in non-Jewish musical traditions of northeast Romania and southern Ukraine, and …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… th centuries and developed under Turkish-Ottoman and Arabic musical influences. Contents The tradition of … This singing is part of the liturgical and para-liturgical musical tradition of communities that descended from Jews … Egypt. H azzanim (cantors) and payytanim passed on these traditions from generation to generation over hundreds of …
And Now We're All Brothers: Singing In Yiddish In Contemporary North America
… song in America, with emphasis on its relation to past traditions and present concerns, most particularly the … Holocaust and the construction of Jewish identities through musical performances. … 1 … Farnham, Surrey … Ashgate … … …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… and below each word. However, the chant also has clear musical features, with a variety of scales, motives, … In the present paper, I will provide a new perspective on musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern … correlates nicely with the dynamic story and transgressive traditions of Purim. We will find that the modes for Torah …
Assaf Shelleg
… devices constituted composers’ perceptions of Jewish musical traditions as much as they facilitated their dialectical … and territorial tropes. Shelleg is also a regular musical contributor at Ha’aretz newspaper. … Musicologist …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… sung preceding and during the High Holidays. Ashkenazi musical traditions of Shofet kol ha'aretz Our previous feature on … development against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon …