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Musical structure and "expressive motion" in East-Ashkenazi liturgical chant
… Summary: This paper will focus on the connection between musical structure and 'expressive motion' in East- Ashkenazi … chant. Its central thesis is that melody, tempo, rhythm, vocal quality and other parameters of music should be interpreted not merely within the framework …
Contemporary American Jewish Music
… Contemporary American Jewish Music Chair: Ruth HaCohen Joel E. Rubin, Department of Music, University of Virginia “Redefining what a Jew means … musical elements including vocables and expressive vocal devices found in hazzanut. The performing contexts and …
Between Israeli and Jewish in Music
… Between Israeli and Jewish in Music Chair: Jehoash Hirshberg Olivier Tourny, CNRS, Paris-Jerusalem The Beta Israel Liturgical Music in Israel Today: Between Tradition, Norm and … communities. They failed in creating a desired, unequivocal “national style,” though a general ideology had been …
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 … communities. They failed in creating a desired, unequivocal “national style,” though a general ideology had been …
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 … a creative endeavor. He contributed many arrangements of vocal niggunim and instrumental music to the Chabad …
Milan Slavicky
… Milan Slavický was a Czech composer, musicologist, and pedagogue. He came from a musical family. His father Klement Slavický and both his … chamber, and electroacoustic music. His interest in vocal music increased significantly after 1990. His …
Viktor Ullmann
… Ullmann family moved to Vienna, and Viktor began studying music theory with Dr. Josef Pohlaneur. In 1918, Viktor … in Prague. Initially Ullmann’s duties were restricted to vocal coaching, but after one year, Zemlinsky expanded his … piano (performed 1923), the Octet (1924), his incidental music for Klabund's Kreidekreis (1925), and the Symphonische …
Moritz Deutsch
… an early age as a prodigy in Talmudic studies. It was his vocal talent however that brought him to Vienna to study music and the cantorial tradition. In 1842 Deutsch was … the Breslau Theological Seminary, where he taught cantorial music for over 30 years. In 1859, Deutsch helped to found …
Leib Glanz
… Synagogue in Brooklyn, N.Y. Glanz rejected the “sobbing” vocal style of his contemporaries. In an effort to … gestures from many different genres, including romantic music, Israeli folk songs, and Jewish liturgical music from communities throughout the Diaspora. While …
David Nowakowsky
… choir at the Brody Synagogue taught him a great deal about vocal arrangement and choral composition. As a side project, … concerts comprised of his own liturgical and paraliturgical music, with instrumental accompaniment. As a result of this … his work at the Brody Synagogue, Nowakowsky also taught music at several local music schools, later becoming a …