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German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… the enrichment of this “pure” cantorial heritage with new choral music, usually for four voices a capella (substituting older improvised Ashkenazi forms of choral accompaniment), partially based on traditional tunes or consisting of originally composed …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… communal life, transmitted to younger generations through oral tradition. Alicia learned much of this repertoire from the … Retahilas, juegos, canciones y romances de tradición oral . Madrid: Compañía Literaria S.L., 2001. … Ladino …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… recordings, the field gained depth as musicians conducted oral histories, engaged in collective documentation … retains the internal logic of klezmer as a longstanding tradition: a premise that needs additional scholarship … decades-long career, methods, and thinking as a klezmer tradition-bearer. The new era has brought vocalists more …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… salvation by Esther and Mordecai, stressing the popular joy traditionally expressed on Purim for this miraculous turn of … literary genres in different languages, written and oral. A Hebrew song generates a popular saying combining … of the text of “Pesah a la mano” have emerged because of oral transmission (or mishearing of recordings), such as …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… These findings show the extent to which repertoires of traditional music have evolved in the century or more since … discography. It also barely survived in the Sephardic oral traditions which were recorded in ethnographic pursuits … the transcription of Avzaradel’s text showing that in fact, oral memory may have preserved a more integral version of …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… crystallized into several minhagim (“customs” or “traditions”) once the printing press started to produce … (but not of the ninth verse of Psalm 28 that is added in oral tradition) for four voices is a testimony of the … have some relationship to the surviving melody found in the oral tradition of the Italian Jews. He based his assessment …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… in this volume belong to a well-documented Jewish music tradition. Moreover, Karnes’s argument that “traces of the … included in his publications many songs he knew through oral transmission from his childhood (Idelsohn 1932, p. x). … land. Karnes’s model proposes that songs transmitted orally by non-professional performers were collected prior …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… Nehemiah Hocha, it poses interesting questions regarding oral transmission, the open boundaries of repertoire and the … and other social dislocations on Jewish liturgical traditions. Before addressing the questions raised by the … 2 [1975]). He became well versed in the diverse liturgical traditions of Jerusalem, especially the maqam-oriented …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… ethnographic research in order to construct an oral history of Edith Gerson-Kiwi. This component of the … insight into the transfer of the German-Jewish educational tradition to Palestine / Israel. They also highlight the … and the recordings. Additional relevant sources include the oral history interviews, as well as a review and …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Sound example 2: She'eh ne'esar, Strasbourg tradition, Michel Heymann, NLI, Y 5913 … Sound example 3: … and limitations of written sources by looking into the oral traditions captured in field recordings and stored at … example 3 below). A comparative analysis of these three oral versions is illuminating. All of them clearly adhere to …