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Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… and penetrating history of Jews in American jazz music, which should become a first stop for those wishing to … nearly everything about the history of Jews and jazz music is difficult to categorize, analyze, or even begin to … self-exclusions necessary in the first place. The book is organized chronologically and by theme into three parts. …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to the scholarly … for the symbolic public display, through the language of music, of new evolving aesthetic ideals, of Jewish public … Third, the use of instrumental music, most particularly the organ was a subject that resulted in extensive discussions. …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and music. The neighborhood had grown around an absorption … Israel, to include variations due to available materials, organology, tunings, playing positions, performance … Peeters. Tourny, Olivier, and Simha Arom, 1999, “The Formal Organisation of the Beta Israel Liturgy—Substance and …
Curt Sachs
… Born in Berlin, Sachs studied piano, music theory and composition as a youth in that city. He … a large collection of musical instruments. He reorganised and restored much of the collection, and his career as an organologist began. In 1933, following Nazi persecution, …
Nitzan Hen Razael
… Nitzan-Chen Razael grew up in Jerusalem in a musical family. His grandfather was a cellist. He studied in the high school close to the Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem and then in the high school … led a group for singing piyyutim under the Kehilot Sharot organization. In addition, he was a member of the comity of …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… the earliest surviving specimens of Middle Eastern Jewish musical traditions. By nature of the technological … opportunity to validate historical theories of musical change that have been based solely on the … Ethnographic Society and An-sky’s closest colleague in organizing the Society’s museum. In 1921 he led a Jewish …
Symphony Overture in G (1732)
… during the sixteenth century night vigils (tiqqunim) were organized at first in Jewish communities in Italy and other … of the most widespread occasions for the performance of art music work especially in Italy. During the eighteenth century musical manifestations on the occasion of Hosha'na Rabbah …
'Ǝsebāhaka bakʷwelu gize, Zegevre ‘aviya wamenkǝra, Wǝ'ǝtus kǝma mǝr`āwi, 'Amlākǝ `ālem
… wedding ceremonies constitute an interesting set from the musical point of view. The performances are varied, the … within a single piece), and the melodies and the time organization show great variety. The first prayer, … third section, antiphonal, is characterized by a different musical mode. Finally, the last prayer consists of three …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… in the Jewish past. A case in point is the scholar and musician Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern … South Africa when she turned 84 in 1995. Jonathan Misha Morgan, the grandson of Denah Idelsohn, Shoshanah’s second … Scopus. A ceremony [Heb. original, neshef , a party] was organized one day for the laying of the cornerstone. Father …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one appeared … on our behalf by Idelsohn’s great-grandson, Jonathan Misha Morgan. Jonathan has become the curator of his … I also founded a large Hebrew choir in Jerusalem and organized concerts for a number of years. My work as a music …