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The Meaning of the Modal Framework in the Singing of Religious Hymns by Christian Arabs in Israel
… we mean the accepted framework in which a certain musical repertoire is organized, as for instance, the Maqamat in Arab music or the Raga in Indian. Modal frameworks are … … 23134 … Modes … Modality … Modal system … Christian Arab … Israel … Religious music … Hymns … Singing … The …
The Hebrew Version of Abû l-Salt’s Treatise on Music
… has failed to add substantially to our knowledge of the Arab author Abu l-Salt (1067-1134) or of his works, which include a treatise on the science of music. The information available continues to be based mainly on the records of the old Arab biographers and bibliographers. Thus H.G. Farmer only …
Robert Lachmann: His Achievement and His Legacy
… Two memorable anniversaries in the history of Ethnomusicology occurred in 1972: the ninetieth return of the … and means, both scholars became the founders of Comparative Musicology in Israel for both the Jewish and the Arab cultures. The following lines are dedicated to the …
Melody and Poetry in the “Kuzari” (Hebrew)
… between melody and textual metre in two kinds of vocal music. The precise meaning of this passage has long been … does Judah Ibn Tibbon's mediaeval Hebrew translation of the Arabic original resolve the difficulties. The context is a comparison of the Hebrew and Arabic languages. After discussing the uses of the various …
Collectanea Concerning Music in the Hebrew Manuscript London, British Library, Or. 10878 (Hebrew)
… Three fragments of musical theory and of speculations on music, collected by an … vol. IX2. A. Hebrew version of a fragment from the Judeo-Arabic commentary by Dunash ibn Tamim (10th century) on the … probably the earliest mention of music in mediaeval Judeo-Arabic literature dealing with the classification of …
The Hallelôt in the Yemenite Dīwān (Hebrew)
… been examined as a poetic genre, a fact that hampers the musicologists. A preliminary listing is given, of printed … seems tolerably representative, all together 289 items. The musical analysis is based on 97 hallel ô t recorded over … unknown; the language is Hebrew, rarely Aramaic, but never Arabic. It should be noted that they appear already in the …
Yemenite Qasīd Songs (Hebrew)
… and amusing in content. They are written in spoken Arabic so that the simpler people and the women, who did not … and they provided entertainment through their content and music. The qasid were sung at the end of parties, once the … published here, with Hebrew translation and apparatus. The musical treatment of the same qasid , performed by Zecharia …
The Music and its Function in the Singing of the Qasīd anda birabbī dī kalaq (Hebrew)
… - includes three main types of poems: sirim (or, in Arabic: niswad ), sir ô t, and hallel ô t . All three … Jews … Yemenite community … Poems … Singing … Diwan … The Music and its Function in the Singing of the Qasīd anda …
Jewish Singing and Boxing in Georgian England
… composed of dry lists of names, titles, textual and musical incipits, folio numbers, concordances, variant … are merely the stuff from which the historical and musical story may be reconstructed. Yet, as every library mole knows, next to the incomparable thrill of actually holding and studying a …
Remarks Concerning the Use of the Melograph in Ethnomusicological Studies
… The Melograph, by now, has become part and parcel of ethnomusicological research and no longer needs an introduction. … Jews from many different cultural backgrounds, as well as Arab communities whose culture has remained intact. Our work … the maqamat , a study of the liturgical music of Christian Arabs in Israel, and an examination of the changes occurring …