… born in 1055 in Granada and died after 1135. He refers to music in many of his poems, mainly those describing … wine-drinking sessions; he also deals with the theory of music in two of his books: the book on poetic art,  Kitab … to the development of practical music through his religious poems and penitential prayer compositions set to …

… Is music intrinsically political? The best-known Jewish song in … niggun) Abraham Zvi Idelsohn, was a European-born Jewish musician who insisted that music and affect were inseparable from ethnic nationhood. …

… scholars understood the term balaĝ as a general word for musical instruments (Hartmann 1960: 57) or for stringed … was played. … 23462 … Instrument … Instrumental music … balag … Mesopotamia … Ancient … Ancient music … Music history … The Balaĝ Instrument and its Role in …

… his parents at the age of eleven. He pursued traditional religious studies in yeshivot in Jerusalem and in Petah … the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études and at the Institut de Musicologie at the Sorbonne where he combined Jewish and … of Jerusalem and the collection of the Institute of Religious Music in Jerusalem , whose director, Avigdor …

… the ritual of Kabalat Shabat has  extended beyond the religious communities and into secular circles as well, such … Hay, recorder: Avigdor Hertzog, 18.11.64. NSA Y3623. Musical Transcription … Piyyutim … קבלת שבת … Liturgical music … Piyyutim … Piyyut … Piyyut … Synagogue music … …

… Above all Barnea was an educator, but also a synagogue musician, paytan and cantor, an expert on the Jerusalem … repertoire of Jerusalem, a repository of paraliturgical music in which different Oriental traditions of piyyut … In 1985, Barnea became director of the Institute for Religious Music, renamed “ Renanot – Institute for Jewish …

… Ukraine) into a Hasidic family with many rabbis. He studied music in Vienna with cantors and teachers of singing and … in 1961 and joined the faculty of the School of Sacred Music at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of … in his compositions.  Alter composed cantorial works and musical settings to Yiddish poems. His collections of …

… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem … as Moroccan Jewry’s foremost paytan , an expert in the religious poetry sung as part of the liturgy, in … the Moroccan Arab and Hebrew traditions of Andalusian music, and by his profound knowledge of the Hebrew language …

… around Europe, while at the same time establishing their religious laws according to decisions of the Turkish … century; this newly acquired stature influenced social and religious aspects of the Karaite Diaspora until the end of … sect's central administration.   The Karaite Legacy and its Musical Tradition The Karaite legacy, which was formed and …

… the military that became obligatory also for ethnic and religious minorities. The refrain in Turkish says, “Long … Turks. The record label defines this song as “Turkish.” Its musical style however is overtly that of a Western military … - Ladino … Ladino Songs … Ottoman Empire … Sephardi music … Salonica … Saloniki … Thessaloniki … Eastern …