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Judit Frigyesi
… Judit Niran Frigyesi is a musicologist, ethnomusicologist, teacher and poet. She … the 19 th -20 th centuries in Europe and ritual musics of non-Western cultures (with expertise in the music of Béla Bartók …
Sylvan Sholom Kalib
… The Jewish Music Research Centre mourns the loss of Cantor Sylvan … (July 24, 1929 - January 15, 2025), a prominent scholar of Western music theory who was also a leading composer, … the triumphs and the difficulties of capturing a diverse, non-Western oral tradition in the confines of Western …
Robert Lachmann
… prisoners. It was there that Lachmann was first exposed to non-Western music and folklore, and he began working on transcriptions …
The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
… (Nusah) The synagogue conducts prayers according to the Western European Sephardic tradition, with minimal, late … which were influenced later by contact with the neighboring non-Jewish and Ashkenazi communities. In a 1972 article … founders were the “Marranos and Anusim, who brought music with them from the Catholic church.” [1] He offers the …
Remarks Concerning the Use of the Melograph in Ethnomusicological Studies
… The Melograph, by now, has become part and parcel of ethnomusicological research and no longer needs an introduction. … Jerusalem, we have used the Melograph for the analyses of non-Western music since 1958. As is well known, Israel has …
Ancient Music in the Modern Classroom
… The French musicologist Jacques Chailley devoted his professional … call to broaden the horizons of music history to include non-Western and ancient musics was met with eagerness by those …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… (1908-1992) is considered one of the founders of Israeli musicology. She studied piano and musicology in Berlin, … This association reoriented her research focus from the canon of Western art music to non-Western music, most particularly, …