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Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… in the areas that comprise today Lithuania, Belarus, Western Russia, Ukraine and Poland and is now widely … grounding in tradition in his own family of immigrants from Western Ukraine, close contact with leading cantors in the … locus ” for discourses that embody “musical corpora of the Jews with what can be called the ‘aura of antiquity’” (47). …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… period, apparently predating its use among Sephardic Jews. Manuscript 85 of the Archivio Storico Comunale of … 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 …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… It is performed by Sephardic and Eastern (Oriental) Jews in a variety of melodies and textual variations. Text … 1902), a collection compiled according to the custom of the Jews of Crimea [5] Following is the piyyut text as printed … for Kol Israel (Israel Radio) in the 1950’s. This is a very Westernized version of the Ottoman melody and is very …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… in Saloniki at the time. The fire left tens of thousands of Jews homeless and consumed most of the Jewish neighborhood … as a major hub of Jewish cultural activity. Though some Jews had lived in Thessaloniki (the current Greek name of … melodies of the other versions, in contrast, remain in a Western minor modality. The above sound examples provide …
Remarks Concerning the Use of the Melograph in Ethnomusicological Studies
… we have used the Melograph for the analyses of non-Western music since 1958. As is well known, Israel has … studies of all kinds. Its inhabitants comprise Jews from many different cultural backgrounds, as well as … the changes occurring in the traditional singing of Aleppo Jews as a result of 'culture contact'. We are presently …
An Institute of Jewish Music in Jerusalem
… in Erez Israel, to the Sephardim and also the Ashkenazim, Jews of Yemen and likewise the Jews of Persia and Babylonia, and to all the Jewish … and cantors in the entire world, from the Jews of [Western] Ashkenaz to the Jews of Poland and from the Jews of …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… [1] It has been retold by generation after generation of Jews in various vernacular languages, in both oral and … 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 …
Moshe Attias
… he had towards the way the State of Israel treated Moroccan Jews (see more below), he remained a local patriot. A … in opposition to his later signature appearance with a Western suit (or at times, a Moroccan djellaba ) with a … as grievances against the state’s approach to all Moroccan Jews since their massive immigration. Deri is portrayed, as …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… its history of Hebrew printing presses and trade; and the Western port city of Livorno, which by the late 17th century … “ Ballads, wedding songs, and piyyutim of the Sephardic Jews of Tetuan and Morocco ,” Track 09, Folkways Records, …
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 … Jewish music in Europe which would resonate with mainstream Western music history, Adler toured post-war Europe in a … texts “elevates” Jewish musical culture, and introduced the Jews to the mainstream European art music narrative even …