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A Bookshelf On Top of the Sky: 12 Stories about John Zorn
… had on his music. One of Zorn's Bands, Masada, is featured prominently in this film. Masada is a quartet comprised of … Zorn creates here what he calls radical Jewish culture, a prominent motif of his later career and a series of releases …
Tipat Mazal (A Bit of Luck)
… JMRC's October, 2013 Song of the Month Low quality video from the film with Revach singing a few songs in Morrocan at …
Representations of Jews in the Musical Theater of the Habsburg Empire (1788-1807)
… representations of Jews on the stage persisted. From the review by Joshua S. Walder, Music and Letters 94, … of religious music, ...may now be able to distil from some of the less mocking of these operatic renderings of …
Ba'al Menagen\ Menagen
… The word 'menagen' (menágn in a Yiddish accent) comes from the verb 'nagen,' which in the hasidic writings and in … in particular. Just as the verb 'nagen' was changed from playing an instrument to singing, there are hasidim that …
Hora
… Origin of the term The word originates from Rumanian. As an ancient term it meant a circular folk … Klezme r Moshe (Musa) Berlin (b. 1937), who took his tunes from musical scores and records published in the U.S., used … and the marching style of the Israeli Hora, was adopted from one of the popular figures of the Freylekhs . Although, …
Society for Jewish Folk Music
… music to this day. Vladimir Stasov, music historian and promoter of the New Russian National School of “The Five” – … was the memorable night when Jewish art music was born.” From that moment, Engel dedicated his life to transcribing, arranging, and promoting the musical heritage of Russian Jewry. He inspired …
Seliha-Selihot
… exclusive to it. Sources of Seliha piyyutim can be found from the time of the pre-classical piyyut in the … is attested by the continuous printing of Siftei Renanot from its first edition (Venice, 1648) and later on in Djerba and Libya from the 17th to the mid-20th century.' [5] The uniqueness of …
Contrafactum
… A term borrowed from medieval Christianity. It refers to a technique of … shepherds' song that was sung and “converted' by the Admor from Kalib (Hungary). … Adon Mo'ed Ketikah- a Seliha by … Rabbi Yosef Bekhor Shor according most of the researchers. From the Ashkenazi Selihot for Rosh Hashanah. The recording …
Musical instruments of the Mountain Jews
… or 'ghumuz' in Juhuri and Qumiq), adopted by musicians from eastern Caucasus (also Azerbaijan and western Caucasus) … like a box with metal reeds which are vibrated by air from below. The right-hand keyboard (two and a half octaves) … accordion. Sound example . Balaban ('damkash' in Juhuri from 'dam' = pitch , 'kash' = to pull or draw, a word that …
Heikhal Hanegina (the Hall of Music)
… A term from the Kabbalah, that refers to a heavenly hall in which … herding a gaggle of geese. Rabbi Leib sensed a high spirit from the 'the Heikhal hashira vehazimra' (the hall of singing … Kalib (Hungary) who would later save the precious melodies from the 'Kelipa' [3] and return them to the holy source …