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Paradigms of Arabic Modes in the Genizah Fragment Cambridge T.S. N.S. 90,4
… workers specializing in this field have developed such a feeling of intimacy with the life and manners of that remote …
The Musical Realization of Biblical Cantillation Symbols (te‘amîm) in the Jewish Yemenite Tradition
… recited by the Yemenites in three different social and religious contexts: (a) the various synagogal services, of …
The Musical Passage in Ibn Ezra's "Book of the Garden"
… to the development of practical music through his religious poems and penitential prayer compositions set to …
Notes on Bukharan Music in Israel
… This interest was stimulated by the observations of Israeli scholars, who have remarked that 'basic research ... … was limited by a serious dearth of musicians among the Israeli Bukharans, the data collected nevertheless afford a …
Felix Mendelssohn - Gustav Mahler: Two Borderline Cases of German-Jewish Assimilation
… elements. He belonged to a fairly homogeneous social elite of North-German bankers and their descendants; yet his … was that of a petite bourgeoisie, ethnically and religiously quite separate from a society that itself was many faceted in its religious beliefs and its everyday language, in a country …
My Life: A Sketch
… I was born in the fisher-hamlet Phoelixburg, on the Baltic Sea, between Windau and … but much sweeter, and their singing was with more Jewish feeling. … Hazzan, Hazan, Chazzan, Chazzanut, Hazzanut, …
An Institute of Jewish Music in Jerusalem
… senses the sanctity of his people's music? Who amongst you believes that his music is the music of his people Israel? … the high estate of our people? Who amongst you feels and believes that the people's music is an echo of the people's soul? Who amongst you believes to hear in the singing of the Jews today the echo of …
A.Z. Idelsohn: A Pioneer in Jewish Ethnomusicology
… study and research of Jewish music was motivated by the belief that the music of biblical times survived in the living traditions of Jewish communities. It was also believed that with the dispersion of the Jewish people after …
Idelsohn’s Scholarly and Literary Publications: An Annotated Bibliography
… Idelsohn's 'Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies' has elicited articles concerning the man and his work from …