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Four Melodies for Four Questions
… New Findings about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a … Abileah was a founding member of the Saint Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music. His work was performed only …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… The collection of historical Jewish field recordings at the Vernadsky National Library of … cycle events recorded in 1913 in Ottoman Palestine from Jewish singers belonging to Middle Eastern communities … of the Museum of the Jewish Historical and Ethnographic Society in Saint Petersburg, carried out these recordings. …
Moshe Nathanson
… in Jerusalem in 1899. Until age 10, Nathanson attended a traditional heder (all-boys religious school) in the old … School of Music). In 1924, he became the cantor for the Society for the Advancement of Judaism (Mordecai Kaplan's … of Nathanson’s most important contributions to the field of Jewish music is his compilation of liturgical melodies, …

David Finko: Russkij kompozitor v Amerike. [David Finko: A Russian composer in America.]
… by Sostakovic, his melodic vocabulary has been enriched by Jewish traditional music. In addition to instrumental and …
Israeli folksongs
… songs that deal mostly with themes that the majority of the Jewish population of Israel (not including the … are generally written in the plural and are centered on society and 'togetherness,' rather than on the individual. … was created as an effort on the part of the first Aliyah (Jewish-Zionist immigration and settling in Palestine) to …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… in eastern Europe, where the art of klezmer, i.e., the traditional instrumentalist, was not necessarily linked to … as early as 1927 in a collection of Lithuanian Jewish tunes (Bernstein [1927] 1958, #95), in which it is … style must consider the characteristic features of Hasidic society—the ambiance of each Hasidic court and the …
Betty Olivero
… influence and make a significant contribution to society. In 2000 Olivero was awarded the Koussevitzky Award … given annually only to six composers. In Olivero's works, traditional and ethnic music materials are processed using … contemporary compositional form, yet is inspired by ancient Jewish and other early musical traditions. Folk material …
Reuben Rinder
… he moved to the United States and pursued his study of Jewish liturgical music. In 1910, Rinder held a cantorial … Reuben Rinder was influential in shaping 20th-century Jewish musical culture. Through insights from the Rinder … yearnings of the San Francisco Jewish community. The “Society for the Advancement of Synagogue Music” founded by …
Miyom qadmon
… the study of sacred texts that characterized the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam. The poem was composed by … of songs performed at the gatherings of the diverse Jewish confraternities in Amsterdam. This specific song was performed at the anniversary celebrations of a society that was dedicated to the study of Hebrew …