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Andalusian Nuba

… to be connected to older traditions that were transmitted orally by Muslim Spain's greatest musicians from the 9 th …

Uncle Moses

… of his childhood especially after he does actions whose morality is arguable. Other Jewish music accompanies the film …

Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in German

… printed with and without musical notation and distributed orally since its original publication. Indeed the amazing … Bimkom ha-erez . It seems that at in the early stages of oral transmission the original German song was “Yiddishized” … [12] This version is noticeable as a transcription from oral tradition, underscored by its melodic and textual …

Racheli Galay

… music and music education in Israel. She earned her doctoral degree in Cello from Northwestern University, Masters … Symphony, Waukegan Symphony and others. Galay wrote her doctoral dissertation on the life and music of cellist-composer …

The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam

… document the chanted melody. Until the 20 th century, the oral transfer of melodies was still the primary technique of … scores of anonymous pieces that had been passed down orally from the late 18 th and early 19 th century Spanish …

Menagen

… from the verb 'nagen,' which in the hasidic writings and in oral tradition means singing (and not playing an instrument, …

Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)

… south Germany, was the main spoken language and language of oral creation of the Ashkenazi Jews of both Western and … part of both rural and urban folklore and has developed oral traditions alongside an attachment to the written word. … and secular songs, as well as the boundaries between oral and written forms of distribution. This blurring of …