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Is Israeli Art Music Jewish?
… Studies Jerusalem Session: Between Israeli and Jewish in Music, 5.8.09 Chair: Yehoash Hirshberg Summary: While the … or more significantly, futility of defining Jewish music itself—many of the founders of Israeli art music … national project, not as a branch of Jewish music which was traditionally written in exiled communities. They failed in …
Gesture, Dance and Melody in Traditional Ashkenazi Culture
… Synagogue and Beyond, 3.8.09 Chair: Amalia Kedem Summary: Traditional Ashkenazic dance, as it had been practiced in … expressive dance movement can be correlated to a number of musical parameters involving melodic density, rhythmic … … 2009 … Walter Zev Feldman … Gesture, Dance and Melody in Traditional Ashkenazi Culture …
The Beta Israel Liturgical Music in Israel Today: Between Tradition, Norm and Creativity
… Studies Jerusalem Session: Between Israeli and Jewish in Music 5.8.09 Chair: Yehoash Hirshberg Summary: Over the past … not been officially welcomed due to their specificity. The traditional status of the Jewish Ethiopian priests has not … the Moderns, by maintaining some old practices – such as traditional songs – while instituting new ones; in other …
Contemporary Jewish Music: A New Series of the JMRC (2009)
… Contemporary Jewish Music: A New Series of the JMRC With the release of “Writing FROM Within” (Kulmus HaNefesh), the Jewish Music Research Centre inaugurates a new line of recordings … Bartók and Zoltan Kodály, the combination of field work, traditional music research and music composition was, and …
Velvel Pasternak
… mourns the passing of Velvel Pasternak, scholar of Hassidic music and founder of Tara Publications , a pioneering … he dedicated his efforts to recording and transcribing traditional Hassidic music of various sects, and later other styles of traditional Jewish music. His company, Tara Publications, …
Shlomo Ravitz
… and Fayge in Nevhardak, Belarus. Since childhood, he had musical talents. At the age of 12, he composed cantorial … where he graduated with honors from a high school of music. At the age of 17, he served as a cantor in the … work containing his compositions and arrangements of traditional tunes. One of the associations he perticipated …
Joseph Singer
… Salomon Sulzer ). He published numerous studies on Jewish music and was among the first to investigate prayer chants scientifically, in an attempt to systemize the traditional prayer modes. Sources: Nulman, Macy. 'Singer, … Joseph.' Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music . … Cantor … Hazzan, Hazan, Chazzan, Chazzanut, …
Esther R. Warkov
… Esther Warkov's seminal contributions to the study of Arab music and Arab-Jewish musicians in Iraq and Israel feature prominently on the JMRC … Musical Composition in Wales and its Relationship with Traditional Welsh Music submitted to the University of Wales …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music … he became acquainted with a vast array of popular and traditional Yiddish songs, as well as, later on, the new … encompassing Encyclopedia of Hassidism printed by “Netzah – Traditional Literary Institute,” which never materialized. …
Michael Lukin
… A research associate, specializing in the traditional culture of Yiddish speakers. His recent … The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore , Musica Judaica , Yuval , Musik Traditionen , Jerusalem … has also investigated other aspects of Eastern Ashkenazi traditional culture, such as Yiddish carnivalesque, folk …