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Salamone Rossi as a Composer of "Hebrew" Music
… Rossi's collection of Hebrew 'Songs,' viz., 'The Songs of Solomon,' marks a milestone in the history of sacred music …
Aristophanes’ Phrynichos and the Orientalizing Musical Pattern
… felt that they belonged to the vast Ionian world — the Solonian Iaovia , which included East Ionia, Attica and …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… instructions The four phrases of the melody are titled: Solo I [cantor’s first part]; Chor [choir’s first part] I; Solo II [cantor’s second part]; Chor II [choir’s second … The first stanza carries the performance indication Solo (cantor). This is followed by the indication Ebenso …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… conducted by Neil Levin with Amy Goldstein as soprano soloist. The piece was recorded on July 1, 2001 at the St. …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… synagogue in 1675 in celebrated), these artistic pieces for solo or choir with instrumental accompaniment where hardly … arrangement. Yet, the harmonic background of these solo pieces is easy to figure out due to the formulaic …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… 2005. No. 45, ' Du forst awek, ' is often attributed to Solomon Shmulewitz (Small) who published the song in the … up amidst Turbulent Times . Nanuet, NY: Feldheim. Rosovski, Solomon. 1929. Mizimrat ha’aretz . Warsaw: Hava’ad hapo’el …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… especially on takasim —the improvisational non-metered solo section which opens a composed piece or bridges its …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… a modern conceptualization of an endangered “heritage” of solo cantorial music (at times framed within a Jewish … in diverse types of relations (such as teacher-disciple, soloist-chorister, guilds’ membership, mutual compliments, …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… 6 provides detailed musical analysis of several songs: a solo voice and masinqo performance, a solo voice and krar performance, a solo washint performance—which became an occasion for other …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… still without meter. The cantor then repeats the response solo, leading without any interruption to the next blessing. … words of Shema are repeated by the cantor in a melismatic solo leading directly into the next prayer, the first … kamokha” (14:10) is also sung to the same melody by a child soloist. This Arab song is obviously a latecomer to the …