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The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… the preservation and research of these distinctive Jewish musical repertoires. Her activities led to the … ethnographic research in order to construct an oral history of Edith Gerson-Kiwi. This component of the … archive, which aimed to systematically document the musical traditions of the Baghdadi Jewish community. The collection …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, 1970), Hanoch Avenary set a new … and limitations of written sources by looking into the oral traditions captured in field recordings and stored at the …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone … on my phone to a variety of people familiar with musical traditions from the Nahda period and/or the liturgical … Jerusalem in the years 2016/17 which was supported by a doctoral studentship of the German National Academic Foundation …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… generation of Jews in various vernacular languages, in both oral and written forms (Spiegel 1967, 13–16; Moreen 2000, … century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records of …
The Reliability of Oral Transmission: The Case of Samaritan Music
… of theoretical formulation concerning the processes of oral transmission of musical culture, the selection of informants in … adequate theories. In Vansina's words, 'the value of oral traditions as historical evidence is a problem that has not …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… and its documentation are therefore formidable. However, musical renditions of the piyyut are rather rare and will be … as well as by professional singers. A performance from oral tradition of Idelsohn’s second (“folk”) melody, sung by … Early Songs of the Land of Israel (Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel 12). In his liner notes Mazor writes: …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… text combines elements of a learning session (casuistry of Oral Law passages and other pedagogical texts) with liturgical ones (blessings, prayers and psalms). The musical repertoire for the performance of the Haggadah ’s … Until immigration to Israel, in the non-Ashkenazi Jewish traditions, as in the Ashkenazi ones, the Four Questions (as …
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 … lack of fixed beat of this melody, a feature kept in all oral variants]. The research infrastructure laid by Avenary …
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, … correlates nicely with the dynamic story and transgressive traditions of Purim. We will find that the modes for Torah … syllabic accent is generally specified in pedagogy (both oral and notated). The te’amim themselves are given above …
Sirba
… refers to the term in question. It also indicates whether musical notation or sound recordings are included in the … Ukrainians, Transylvanian Hungarians, and even Polish gorale (highlanders from the mountainous regions along the … sirba or other brisk tune are common in non-Jewish musical traditions of northeast Romania and southern Ukraine, and …