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Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… working as a volunteer in Meseret , a center that supported traditional Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and music. The neighborhood had grown around an absorption … The center became home to older men who spun cloth on traditional weaving looms; women who spun thread unto …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to the scholarly … forms of choral accompaniment), partially based on traditional tunes or consisting of originally composed … and the disciplining of an orally transmitted traditional music lore through a theoretical discourse. …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From … practice was through exploring the variations between the traditional Iraqi maqam tradition from Baghdad and what she …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… salvation by Esther and Mordecai, stressing the popular joy traditionally expressed on Purim for this miraculous turn of … life, became one of the most remarkable folk performers of traditional Sephardic songs within the American … patterns animate its language, poetical structure and musical setting, as seen below. Purim, Purim Lanu (Ladino …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… who formulated their German-Jewish identity within “the traditional bounds of intellectual history.” Unger, he … in Unger’s history: Unger decided to “devote his life to music making” after hearing Mahler’s Lied von der Erde ; he … concerts whose programs revolved mainly around Mahler’s music to the repeated efforts to perform Mahler in Canada. …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… from archives around the world offer unique vistas on past musical cultures. These findings show the extent to which repertoires of traditional music have evolved in the century or more since commercial …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… return to this feature later. Right now, let us move to the musical performance of the three verses. The precious Leo … from the second sefer on High Holidays in Rome: The Italian traditional technique for singing the te'amim, which is … 100) Joshua R. Jacobson, “A possible influence of traditional chant on a synagogue motet of Salomone Rossi,” …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, 1970), Hanoch Avenary set a new … is found in Ashkenazi prayer books, which have traditionally presented altered, fragmented versions of the … 7, no. 109). Its form conforms to all the parameters of the traditional Ashkenazi melody of “She’eh ne’esar” described …
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 … below, is indeed exceptional. “ Yom Yom Odeh ” is traditionally performed on the Jewish holiday of Shavuot … on a qanun and a violin, followed by an opening section, traditionally known as the madhhab , in which Tabbach, now …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… in sections according to the different Turkish makam s (musical modes), titled Shirei Israel be-eretz ha-qedem … to makam Rast places this version in the realm of Turkish music. Secondly, the title clearly delineates its … song’s tendency to blur the boundaries between piyyut and traditional categories of the Judeo-Spanish repertoire, we …