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Traces of Jewish Musicians in the Writings of Lomazzo
… humanistic writers of the sixteenth century but also the oral traditions – stories, explanations, conceptions – that … naturally very difficult to determine the origin of these traditions since we generally have no texts on which we can …
Between Tradition and Modernity
… Between Tradition and Modernity: The High Holy Days Melodies of … as well as of the entire Southern German liturgical Jewish tradition round out the 470 pages of this book, making it … as one of the most significant transcriptions of the oral tradition of Ashkenazic ḥazzanut. More specifically, …
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 … adequate theories. In Vansina's words, 'the value of oral traditions as historical evidence is a problem that has …
Numerical Representation of Variants of Orally Transmitted Tunes
… It is a well-known fact that orally transmitted (folk) tunes exist in many variants, … can rarely be solved with mathematical accuracy. For the oral tradition of a tune is ever-changing, depending upon the …
Towards an Interdisciplinary Study of Jewish Oral Traditions
… and illustrate the need for pursuing the study of the oral aspect of Jewish traditions on a well-defined interdisciplinary basis. We shall discuss the concepts of oral tradition and of interdisciplinary methodology in the …
The Rules of the Oral Transmission of the Mishnah According to the Aleppo Tradition
… of research designed to understand the laws governing the oral transmission of the Mishnah, the Jewish Oral Law. This compilation was originally orally transmitted … continuity and stability. … 9431 … Oral transmission … Oral tradition … Mishna … Mishnah … Jewish Law … Aleppo … The …
The Training of Hazzanim in Nineteenth-Century Germany
… their own compositions had little effect on the basic oral nature of the tradition and the learning process. This oral transmission, from one generation to the next, from a …
Greek Epic and Kypriaka: Why “Cyprus Matters”
… the end of the Late Bronze Age. Did they bring with them a tradition of oral heroic poetry, cognate to that which eventually …
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, … until the late eighteenth century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records of …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… Jewishness through music challenged the normative status of traditions of old. Browsing through my private collection of … that “the song betrays a secular socialist slant on the traditional Passover narrative, eliminating all references … in this recording into an artistic lied, as much as the choral arrangement by Raymond Goldstein that we mentioned …