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Curt Sachs
… Born in Berlin, Sachs studied piano, music theory and composition as a youth in that city. He … as an art historian, but promptly became more devoted to music, eventually being appointed director of the Staatliche … Claudie. “Curt Sachs.” Journal of the International Folk Music Council 12 (1960): 88–89. (in French) … …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… of its contents in the wider context of Hasidic music research is a desideratum. The present essay, focusing … time in Beregovski’s Evreiskiie narodnyie pesni [Jewish Folk Songs] – the collection that Beregovski prepared for … 1962 source it was reprinted in M. Beregovski, Old Jewish Folk Music: The Collections and Writings of Moshe Beregovski …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and music. The neighborhood had grown around an absorption … context, is also favored over other available choices: a folklorized, depoliticized Ethiopianness or alternatively, … music in Israel occurring in the moment of transition, when folkloric styles played by community members were not only a …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to the scholarly … for the symbolic public display, through the language of music, of new evolving aesthetic ideals, of Jewish public … and transmission of religious values, customs and folklore of German Jewry as they existed prior to the …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… Jewish Music Collections of the Vernadsky National Library of … documentation of Eastern European Jewish music and folklore. The complicated paths of encounter between … , at the time the Librarian and Director of the Archive of Folk Song at the American Folklife Center of the Library of …
Music, Muslims and Jews
… means of communication capable of surmounting estrangement. Music and music making was an area of cultural expression in which the … Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur: Qanun master, composer and …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the passing of Moroccan Jewish folk singer Alicia (Benassayag) Bendayan on Friday, June 11, … appeared on commercial recordings, such as the important Folkways release, Ballads, Wedding Songs, and Piyyutim of …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… glad to launch the sixth volume in the Contemporary Jewish Music series, 13 Jewish Folk Tunes, an online world-premiere recording of … scene that includes liturgical, para-liturgical and folk tunes of Eastern European and Babylonian Jewish …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… later in her life, became one of the most remarkable folk performers of traditional Sephardic songs within the … . Today many consider “Pesah a la mano” as a traditional folksong, and rightly so. Jagoda first recorded the song in … patterns animate its language, poetical structure and musical setting, as seen below. Purim, Purim Lanu (Ladino …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… from archives around the world offer unique vistas on past musical cultures. These findings show the extent to which repertoires of traditional music have evolved in the century or more since commercial … it for choir, in the spirit of the modernist approach to folk songs characteristic of the twentieth-century Bulgarian …