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Curt Sachs
… musical instruments in 200 years. As one of the founders of modern organology (the study of the nature and history of … … American musicologist of German birth, founders of modern organology … Musicologist … German Jews … American … …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… older strata of the Eastern European Ashkenazi music. This mode is common in prayer tunes, in the Yiddish folk song and … the openness to diverse tempi of one and the same melodic model. [8] Figure 9: Tolna version transcribed by Achron … nineteenth century, becoming an emblematic signifier of modern Israeli culture. As Mazor has shown in his …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… The chapter focuses most especially on the four Ethiopian modes ( qignit ) covered in this literature, in relation to … 11(2):161-173. Gilroy, Paul, 1993, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness . Cambridge, MA: Harvard …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… of a Jewish bourgeoisie and on the effects of these urban models on synagogues of smaller towns. … … The basic … … The paradigm consists of several elements. First, a modern conceptualization of an endangered “heritage” of solo … Naumbourg (from Munich but active in Paris). The “German model” found diverse forms of expression that reflect local …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… Harshav’s) that allows him to view the genre as a common mode of expression with its own variations across Jewish … terms that Rubin has set out for himself—one chapter on mode and form, and the other on ornamentation—yes, …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… from 1924 shows Stutschewsky’s exposure to Central European modernism embedded within a Jewish multi-ethnic scene that …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… and had also laid the foundation for what became known as modern Iraqi music. Most of these musicians moved to Israel … Its development was entwined with ideas and processes of modernization. Warkov focused especially on takasim —the …
Moshe Cordova
… Israeli Radio from the Ohel Moed synagogue, the central and modern Sephardic sanctuary in south Tel Aviv. Two …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… adage became the opening line of one of the most popular modern Ladino songs, “Pesah a la mano,” authored by singer, …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… could speak”. This latter phrase Kaplan singles out as “modernism on the hoof: startlingly formal innovation …