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Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take on assumed black music tastes) on which all of Berlin’s early works centred. … [inter alia] … cultural and economic life and the arts and sciences … deeply informed books that explore the range and …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… (1908-1992) is considered one of the founders of Israeli musicology. She studied piano and musicology in Berlin, Leipzig, Heidelberg, Freiburg i. Br. … a variety of experimental methods drawing from the natural sciences and psychology. After 1945, following 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 … stored in the shelves of the Lebanese Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research (AMAR). Located in the little … . Oxford: Oxford University Press. _____. 1987. Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers …
Yonatan Turgeman
… PhD candidate in the Hebrew University Musicology Department, a fellow of the PhD Honors Program in the Mandel School of Advanced Studies, and an active musician ('Avodot Afar'). His dissertation, 'The Science of Song in 'Pre-Academic' Israeli Musicology and the …
The Music of Kurdistan Jews - a Synopsis of their Musical Styles
… an historical continuity of national schools of thought in sciences or arts. Its more recent political history has … including a strong tendency towards linguistic as well as musical dialect formation. It is only natural that the musical traditions of Kurdistan Jews should also have been …
The Hebrew Version of Abû l-Salt’s Treatise on Music
… or of his works, which include a treatise on the science of music. The information available continues to be based … and composition, and his theoretical writings on music. An extensive musical treatise of his has come down to …
Jubal in the Middle Ages
… Mediaeval treatises on music usually begin with a series of stereotype … answers, very often in the following order: (1) Quid sit musica ; (2) unde dicetur ; (3) a quibus sit inventa . The … represents the classical view on the beginnings of musical science. Jubal, 'the father of them that play upon the harp …
A Jewish Sufi on the Influence of Music
… authors during the mediaeval period on the subject of music, a fair deal of information concerning attitudes … a more general nature. In addition to encyclopedias of the sciences and biblical commentaries, especially of the … with the 'ethical' and therapeutic properties ascribed to music. The highly interesting ethical treatise …
Collectanea Concerning Music in the Hebrew Manuscript London, British Library, Or. 10878 (Hebrew)
… Three fragments of musical theory and of speculations on music, collected by an … the art of music the foremost among the (four) mathematical sciences. This is probably the earliest mention of music in … Judeo-Arabic literature dealing with the classification of sciences. B. Gloss (by Moses ibn Ezra [b. ca 1055, d. after …
Idelsohn: The Founder and Builder of the Science of Jewish Music – A Creator of Jewish Song
… by his wife's great interest in traditional Jewish music. Her efforts to educate the Jewish public in the value of its musical heritage began long before her acquaintance with … traditions … Idelsohn: The Founder and Builder of the Science of Jewish Music – A Creator of Jewish Song … A. Irma …