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Jacob Hoffman’s “Doina and Hora” (1923) and the Analysis of Klezmer Music
… June 10, 18:30 Seminar of Musicology Department Room 48229, Humanities, The Hebrew … In this talk, I give an overview of my work on klezmer music, developed over a period of several years. I use a … Blacksberg. I also reflect on the use of exemplars in music theory and explore their potential for a more expansive and …
10. Tekkumbhagam—Kochi Synagogue Song
… (x2) A solid foundation for the paḷḷi they laid. (x2) Music rang out, with booming of drums, (x2) With fireworks … to the south. There is a discredited but widely published theory that the Kadavumbhagam and Tekkumbhagam synagogues in … celebration for everyone, with food, drink, fireworks, the music of drumming and women’s songs, and the sound of joyous …
Book Review: Music’s Making - The Poetry of Music; The Music of Poetry
… Cherlin M., Music’s making: The Poetry of Music, the Music of Poetry . SUNY Press, 2024. In a letter … | Music and philosophy. | Music and literature. | Music theory –Philosophy. | Music--Religious aspects – Judaism. If …
1. Maqam Rast
… item 2; radio tape 1158). Al-‘Amari was an expert in Iraqi music and even wrote manuscripts on maqam theory. The rhythmic song that follows is sung by a group in … Audio Examples (CDs 1-5) … Makam … Ethnography … Ethnomusicological Research … Iraq … Jewish musicians … Maqam … …
Yoel Greenberg
… Yoel Greenberg is Emanuel Alexandre Chair of musicology and head of the Jewish Music Research Centre in the Hebrew University, Jerusalem … His research brings methods from data science and systems-theory to bear on traditional concerns of music theory, He …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one appeared … Rabinovitz and he took upon himself to teach me the music theory and voice training. Yiska’s memoire: [3a] He …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… in the Jewish past. A case in point is the scholar and musician Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern Jewish musical research. Idelsohn’s life traversed several … to teaching music at his school. [23] Father taught music theory and singing. A year later, Father was very pleased to …
Piris Eliyahu
… during which he conducted ethnographic research on the musical traditions of the Mountain Jews situated in the … emigrated to Israel. After some years he became head of the Theory course in the Ethnic School, formerly part of the … and taught in the Centre for Middle Eastern Classical Music in Musrara neighborhood, Jerusalem. In 2007 he …
Mark Slobin
… Mark Slobin is the Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music Emeritus at Wesleyan University and the author or … on Afghanistan and Central Asia, eastern European Jewish music, film music, American music, and ethnomusicology theory, two of which have received the ASCAP-Deems Taylor …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… history is complex, revealing a number of interrelated musical and textual settings. Looking into the information … of different composers, such as the prominent Iraqi-Jewish musician Salah al-Kuwaity (1908-1986), and in some cases it … effect of this popular recording supports Charles Seeger’s theory regarding the impact of technology on oral tradition …