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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 …
Niggun
… A monophonic folk music composition, vocal or instrumental, with or without …
The “Hebrew Melody” by Joseph Achron: New version for voice, violin and piano premiered in Jerusalem, January 8, 2009
… was performed in concerts of the “Society for Jewish Folk Music.” Later on, Achron returned to this work at least … Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev. In 1935 Achron returned to this vocal version of the “Hebrew Melody,” adding to it a violin … Folk Music. Free English translation of the text for the vocal version of “Hebrew Melody” by Marie Rap-hoph Achron as …
Ahavat ‘Olamim
… in 2010. This is the third disc in the Contemporary Jewish Music series produced by the Jewish Music Research Centre. It is the product of the initiative … this elaborate long piece, which required an intense vocal effort and adaptations to musical languages he had …
Representations of Jews in the Musical Theater of the Habsburg Empire (1788-1807)
… literature and theater has not identified any musical parallels to contemporary representations of Jews in … David Buch’s new study offers the earliest identifiable musical depictions of Jews in European theater (specifically … His volume contains the earliest known theatrical vocal pieces intended to replicate synagogue music. This …
Elohim Eshala
… They formed an ensemble specializing on Israeli “folk music” called “Oranim Tzabar” playing arrangements by … a soloist and a choir, allowing the soloist to display his vocal abilities through highly melismatic phrases. The Shira … to the Shirah . The Hallel is performed in a plurivocal [2] style that characterizes the performance of …