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The Liturgy of Beta Israel: Music of the Ethiopian Jewish Prayer
Some scientific enterprises, like good wine, mature over a long period of time. The…
Bernardo Feuer
… which still bears his name. Feuer composed works based on texts by Jewish poets such as Chaim Nachman Bialik, Isaac …
The Hebrew Version of Abû l-Salt’s Treatise on Music
… 9433 … Treatise … Music Treatise … Historical Texts … Abu l-Salt … Arab … Author … Manuscripts … The …
Melody and Poetry in the “Kuzari” (Hebrew)
… 23135 … Melody … Text-music relations … Texts … Meter … Yehuda Halevy … Hebrew cantillation … Jewish …
The Magical and Theurgic Interpretation of Music in Jewish Sources from the Renaissance to Hassidism (Hebrew)
… 23257 … Music history … Kabbalah … Jewish texts … Music theory … Power of Music … Renaissance … …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… associated with the Binding of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew and Yiddish. Many of these texts touch directly upon the biblical story, while others … content, formal aspects, as well as their cultural contexts and functions. Special attention will be given to …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… summer camp, aka Kinder Ring, is indicative of the contexts of performance of “Piramidn.” Although, as Neil Levin …
Moshe Attias
… conversation with Mwijo and it appears also in some of his texts. In spite of the importance of Mwijo’s intra-Jewish …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… it always sung with the same stanzas or melody. In some contexts it may be referred to as a piyyut , whereas in other … Below we will compare a common stanza of these two texts: “Adonay hu elohenu,” SHIBA , Stanza 2 משה עלה לשמים … [ Shir emunim ] In this comparison, we see that both texts are similar thematically, structurally and …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… understand. Listening to high art music with Hebrew sacred texts “elevates” Jewish musical culture, and introduced the …