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‘Cantor Soprano’: The Career of Julie Rosewald
… Jerusalem Session: Documenting and Performing Ashkenazi Music 3.8.09 Chair: James Loeffler Summary: Between 1884 and … as a unique figure of woman cantor in America until the mid-twentieth century. This paper will lay out a description of the …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… among cabbalistic circles in Safed in the sixteenth century. The cabbalists of Safed ascribed prime importance … in that the piyyutim are arranged according to the maqamat (musical modes) in use in the court music of the Ottoman … and published in Jerusalem in 1931. Over the course of the twentieth century this collection of piyyutim, which was …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… where it has been found since at least the early eighteenth century (see, manuscript Berlin - Staatsbibliothek … of its practice in the liturgy. For this reason, twentieth century scholars, as the present writer, tended to … line of the opening stanza, is the refrain (same words and music are repeated) and x, the last line of the rest of the …
Hayrana Laih
… on the other hand lived in Egypt until the end of the twentieth century. We assume that her decision to abandon Judaism was … Arab countries who immigrated to Israel. A twenty-first century awakening in the interest on the cultural heritage …
Cute Boy, Charming Girl
… in the development of this genre in the first half of the twentieth century. It includes poems by canonical poets that were set to music by professional composers, songs by amateur poets and …
Ades Synagogue
… Zion neighborhood, in central Jerusalem. At the turn of the twentieth century many Jews emigrated from Syria to various countries, … tradition. In Jerusalem, the Ades community maintains the musical tradition of the Aleppine Jews. Each Shabbat is …
Hay ram galeh
… it became major hub for liturgical and paraliturgical music in the modern western section of Jerusalem. It also … of Egyptian Arabic music developing from the late 19 th century onwards. The new Egyptian song became hegemonic … attending the Ades synagogue became in the course of the twentieth century truly a multi-ethnic one. Persian, …
Freylekhs
… term that, in this case, signifies a musical genre. It seems that Freylekhs tunes comprised … of the Klezmer repertoire, published in the U.S. in the twentieth century. [7] Feldman, who worked to revive the 'Ashkenazi …
Hora
… Moshe (Musa) Berlin (b. 1937), who took his tunes from musical scores and records published in the U.S., used the … watching videos shot in the twenties and thirties of the twentieth century, it can be seen that the Hora dance has gone through …
Brakha Tzefira
… His wife Hadassah, Brakha's beloved teacher, encouraged her musical talents, and proposed that Tzefira should sing … for the evolvement of an Israeli culture during the twentieth century. Her unique role went beyond that of just a …