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Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… comparison, and the comparison in turn brings unique aspects of each mode into relief. A comparison between … is no dominant-to-tonic motion; instead, E is simply recontextualized with C below and G above. We can compare this … along with textural parallelisms; sometimes the musical and textual parallelisms align and sometimes they do not. …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… ‘Akedah. It will assess their thematic content, formal aspects, as well as their cultural contexts and functions. … and multiply his future descendants. The story’s primary textual rendering in the Hebrew Bible (Genesis XXII:1–19) is … and Leitzmann 1923, 271), while cultural-historical contextualization points to earlier origins (Shmeruk 1967, …
Moshe Attias
… multifaceted artist. Its content is varied in terms of textual genres and musical styles. Yet, one feature remained … Mwijo’s repertoire also reveals some of the ambivalent aspects of modern Moroccan Jewish identity. Religious zeal … with modern secular practices, while rooted musical and textual genres interlace with contemporary urban styles from …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… suggested a comprehensive method for addressing the musical aspects of Hebrew liturgical poetry from an evolutionary … Hebrew) see here . Within his analysis of the musical and textual development of the piyyut genre (and of Jewish … Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Ms. Or. 1224, fol. 148b, showing textual amendments The melody The point of departure for …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… to the volume The extensive introduction to this volume contextualizes the collection from diverse perspectives, … of the editorial policy employed in handling the various aspects of Melngailis’s manuscript. The only unfortunate … collection deserves praise for the rich historical contextualization provided by its insightful introductory …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… of a common miller — Tesler-Mabé sets out to write a “ contextual history ” [sic.] in which a “single historical … path. Even if the intentions of rehabilitation and contextualization can be combined — which is doubtful — the … of sacrificial transcendence.” (Sacks 2013, 113). These aspects are excluded from Tesler-Mabé’s view, most likely …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… scholarship, much of which was focused on the Jewish aspects of the community’s culture, or alternatively, had … than interpretive. Musical analysis provides a prominent textual focus (chapter 6 is the longest in the thesis) …
Eliyahu Hacohen
… programs and public lectures about the most diverse aspects of the modern Hebrew song (aka Zemer ‘ivri or Shirei … work lacked a coherent theoretical framework seeking the contextualization of the modern Hebrew song within its …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… archive at the National Library of Israel, covered certain aspects of Idelsohn’s Jerusalem period (1907-1921, with some … n. 129) briefly mentions this document. For the sake of contextualization, we have annotated the text in a rather …