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The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… and limitations of written sources by looking into the oral traditions captured in field recordings and stored at … example 3 below). A comparative analysis of these three oral versions is illuminating. All of them clearly adhere to … liturgical melodies and Yiddish folksongs. All in all, this oral version vindicates Wodak’s transcription as a reliable …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… ethnographic research in order to construct an oral history of Edith Gerson-Kiwi. This component of the … and the recordings. Additional relevant sources include the oral history interviews, as well as a review and …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… Nehemiah Hocha, it poses interesting questions regarding oral transmission, the open boundaries of repertoire and the …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… included in his publications many songs he knew through oral transmission from his childhood (Idelsohn 1932, p. x). … land. Karnes’s model proposes that songs transmitted orally by non-professional performers were collected prior … where the Yiddish text is set to a different tune in a choral arrangement by E. Scheinin. Karnes points out that …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… (but not of the ninth verse of Psalm 28 that is added in oral tradition) for four voices is a testimony of the … have some relationship to the surviving melody found in the oral tradition of the Italian Jews. He based his assessment … chose to set the text in a modal framework that recalls the oral versions. All these factors: text, triple repetition of …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… discography. It also barely survived in the Sephardic oral traditions which were recorded in ethnographic pursuits … the transcription of Avzaradel’s text showing that in fact, oral memory may have preserved a more integral version of …
Dan Deutsch
… Dan Deutsch is currently an Azrieli postdoctoral fellow in the Musicology Department at the Hebrew …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… literary genres in different languages, written and oral. A Hebrew song generates a popular saying combining … of the text of “Pesah a la mano” have emerged because of oral transmission (or mishearing of recordings), such as …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… recordings, the field gained depth as musicians conducted oral histories, engaged in collective documentation …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… care about either) are commonplace assumptions of the oral histories as well as the professional historiography, …