… introductions to songs; Dori 2022:197-8 ). One of his vocal compositions, ‘ Ya najmat ebilel’ ( يا نجمة ال بالليل تزهي ) … in 1936, attained the status of an Iraqi folksong. His compositions contributed to the promotion of the Iraqi maqam …

This is a short extract of the article “Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan…

… his Jewish admirers clung to him enthusiastically. The compositions he gave us to sing were of very mediocre …

… oral traditions became more formalized and static, while compositions conceived as “art” works became traditionalized …

… synagogue cantors, ḥazzanim, often tended to structure new compositions of (para)liturgical hymns (known as piyyutim … he, who was blind and relied on a scribe to record his compositions, is said to have produced and revived over four … them to compare their melodies and maqams with his own compositions (Shelemay 1998, 30-32). Even his blindness is …

James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019…

… two dances, and each one of them created many distinct compositions. Stutschewsky 1959, p. 214 . ( Musical notation …

This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…