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Assaf Shelleg
… in which art music was written by or about Jews, in Europe, North America, British Palestine, and Israel. … the emergence of modern Jewish art music in Central and Western Europe in the early twentieth century and its partial …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… 13 th century containing our poem (twice) is the French (Western Ashkenazi) order of prayers for the High Holy Days, … poem, and obviously it indicates that in the circle of the (Western Ashkenazi) users of this manuscript there was an … liturgical poems such as Shofet kol ha’aretz to Eastern Europe. When Shofet kol ha’aretz appeared in printed prayers …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… a feeling of mercy according to the affects’ conventions of Western music. Yet immediately afterwards, instead of the …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… and from there to France and to other parts of Christian Europe. Toward the end of his life he wandered to England, … for Kol Israel (Israel Radio) in the 1950’s. This is a very Westernized version of the Ottoman melody and is very …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… and cultural aspects of Jewish existence in trans-alpine Europe and appear to explain the narrative’s major role in … Issac in various ways. Ashkenazi Jews did not employ Western notation until the late eighteenth century and … of Jews within the Ashkenazi realm became proficient in Western music notation, enabling them to record Jewish …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… rather unique (from the Jewish perspective of the period) Western musical taste of the small but affluent Sephardic … a renewed interest in written music sources of historical European Jewish communities. Driven by a … Jewish music in Europe which would resonate with mainstream Western music history, Adler toured post-war Europe in a …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… symmetric structure [that] gives it the stamp of the common European song.” Melody emerges in this case from the poetic … Hamnazeah , 1898, no. 66 Avenary mentioned that the “Western” melody, i.e. Sulzer’s, is similar to German folk … Let’s note here that Idelsohn’s comparative approach of Western Ashkenazi metric melodies such as “She’eh ne’esar” …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… association reoriented her research focus from the canon of Western art music to non-Western music, most particularly, the music of religious and … para-liturgical and non-religious music of the non-European Jewish communities whose members relocated to …
Moshe Cordova
… was also known as Kal de los Francos (Synagogue of the Europeans) since at least the late 1910s. It was founded by … for this purpose and transcribed some of his pieces in Western musical notation. Elnadav carried Cordova’s legacy …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… World War II, investigating these practices within a broad European cultural context. The synagogue is conceived not … this study will also challenge the binary construct of Western and Eastern Ashkenaz that has been criticized in … of Jewish studies. The German model spread well beyond Western Europe, becoming the inspiration for the music of …