June 10, 18:30
Seminar of Musicology Department
Room 48229, Humanities, The Hebrew University, Campus Mt. Scopus
Abstract
In this talk, I give an overview of my work on klezmer music, developed over a period of several years. I use a single tune and recording, the “Doina and Hora” recorded by Jacob Hoffman with Kandel’s Orchestra in 1923, as an exemplar for statistical properties of the klezmer modes, melodic and harmonic schemata, and performance practice. The talk draws on ethnography as well as music analysis: I discuss and play recordings from a 2017 workshop with the klezmer violinist Deborah Strauss and trombonist Dan Blacksberg. I also reflect on the use of exemplars in music theory and explore their potential for a more expansive and culturally informed discipline. The statistical analysis in this talk draws on work that I developed together with Daniel Shanahan (Northwestern University).
Yonatan Malin, Professor of music theory in the College of Music and Program in Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.