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Omanut ha-Hazzanut
… Abraham Ber Birnbaum. It is a treatment of liturgical music for Cantor and choir, and consists of two volumes: The … prayers. The collection has much enriched the synagogue music of the time. … 81 … 81 … 10 … Omanut ha-Hazzanut … Omanut ha-Hazzanut … 34769 … New York … Sacred Music Press … … Hazzan, Hazan, Chazzan, Chazzanut, Hazzanim, …
Musical structure and "expressive motion" in East-Ashkenazi liturgical chant
… Summary: This paper will focus on the connection between musical structure and 'expressive motion' in East- Ashkenazi liturgical chant. Its … tempo, rhythm, vocal quality and other parameters of music should be interpreted not merely within the framework …
Contemporary American Jewish Music
… Contemporary American Jewish Music Chair: Ruth HaCohen Joel E. Rubin, Department of Music, University of Virginia “Redefining what a Jew means … of “traditional” musical elements including vocables and expressive vocal devices found in hazzanut. The performing …
Bloch: Known and Unknown
… was an outcome of a complex response to Wagnerian racial-musical theory via the intermediary of Houston Stuart … in Bloch’s relationship to Wagner, in that his expression of the ‘Jewish soul’ and use of Jewish traditional … to his Jewish works. I also consider how far Bloch’s musical dialectic of Jewish particularism and universality, …
The Jewish Bloch
… Chair: Malcom Miller Zecharia Plavin, Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance Bloch's Jewish-Hebrew musical narrative of Jewish Cycle and the late phase of … a few years he was celebrated as the only composer who expressed his Jewish heritance in music without inhibition. …
Jewish Identities and Ideologies in Music
… Jewish Identities and Ideologies in Music Chair: Boaz Tarsi Ruth Davis, Cambridge University Ethnomusicology and Zionist Ideology in Pre-State Israel In 1905, … relations, particularly as they concern the unrelenting pressure brought on the Levis, in everyday life, to save …
Between Israeli and Jewish in Music
… Between Israeli and Jewish in Music Chair: Jehoash Hirshberg Olivier Tourny, CNRS, Paris-Jerusalem The Beta Israel Liturgical Music in Israel Today: Between Tradition, Norm and … Ethiopian liturgy is still alive in modern-day Israel, as expressed in the construction of large prayer houses in …
Is Israeli Art Music Jewish?
… Studies Jerusalem Session: Between Israeli and Jewish in Music, 5.8.09 Chair: Yehoash Hirshberg Summary: While the … or more significantly, futility of defining Jewish music itself—many of the founders of Israeli art music … and Tal against ideologies of explicit Jewishness expressed in works of the early 2000s by leading composers …
Gesture, Dance and Melody in Traditional Ashkenazi Culture
… based on set figures, and a Jewish tradition based on expressive gesture. This paper contends that the nature of the … expressive dance movement can be correlated to a number of musical parameters involving melodic density, rhythmic structure, musical development and tempo. … 15 … 34706 … Jerusalem … … …
“Beyond All This Hides a Great Happiness”: Israeliness and Jewishness in the work of Mark Kopitman
… Studies Jerusalem Session: Between Israeli and Jewish in Music 5.8.09 Chair: Yehoash Hirshberg Summary: Two cantatas … Scattered Rhymes (both based on texts by Yehuda Amichai) express ambivalence so typical of the Israeli state of mind. A … the author’s utter despair and sorrow. Kopytman’s music, on the contrary, helps to give vent to agonizing and …