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Remarks Concerning the Use of the Melograph in Ethnomusicological Studies
… the Melograph in operation, the problems raised by the new musical material it provides, and the new methods of … cultural backgrounds, as well as Arab communities whose culture has remained intact. Our work hitherto has centered … in the traditional singing of Aleppo Jews as a result of 'culture contact'. We are presently engaged in a study of the …
Bernardo Feuer
… a Jewish folk choir with the aim of spreading Jewish culture through the preservation and transmission of their … participated both in Jewish community events and in Chilean musical festivals, such as the International Choral and … Roberto, Gover, Miriam, “Bernardo Feuerˮ, Trayectorias musicales judeo-argentinas , Bs. As.: Milá, pp. 60, 61. …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… from Spain and Portugal in 1492 carried their Judeo-Spanish culture with them as they migrated, including literary traditions, musical forms and the Judeo-Spanish language, Ladino. The Jewish musical life that developed in Saloniki consisted of these …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… with liturgical ones (blessings, prayers and psalms). The musical repertoire for the performance of the Haggadah ’s … that probably enhanced the process of the Haggadah ’s musicalization. These additions also blurred the borderline … new tunes, composed in the spirit of the new Hebrew musical culture, had a lively metric character calling for …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… sung preceding and during the High Holidays. Ashkenazi musical traditions of Shofet kol ha'aretz Our previous … development against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon comprises …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… and below each word. However, the chant also has clear musical features, with a variety of scales, motives, … In the present paper, I will provide a new perspective on musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern … cantillation has co-existed with tonality in European culture since 1600. Ne’eman observes that melodic variants …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… and European Zionism, mid-century Yiddish secular culture, the contemporary klezmer scene, and even into … rest serve as archival records of an earlier time and its musical repertoire. The songs are all notated with piano … in such a ready-to-use manner, easily accessible to all musically literate people regardless of Hebrew knowledge. …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… of folklore deal with the question of how carriers of folk culture remember texts that are transmitted orally. … two stanzas) with each line consisting of two hemistiches. Musically, each textual line is accompanied by a melodic phrase. This pattern creates a binary musical structure of two phrases which alternate in an ABAB …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… circumstances in which Imber’s poem was shaped and the musical contrafactum (adaption of a preexisting melody to a … Studying Hatikvah shows how a distinct Zionist music culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the … orally. It underwent, in the process of its reception and musical performances, changes and adaptations. The printed …
Karev Yom
… songs are by Yemenite-born musicians who were active in the musical scene of British Palestine, Sara Levi-Tanai and … at the Mannes School of Music with an already remarkable musical career in Israel following his immigration in 1948. … rather than from the emerging triumphalist Israeli Hebrew culture. The song belongs to the Ashkenazi repertoire for …