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The Idelsohn Project
… Is music intrinsically political? The best-known Jewish song in … This Hebrew ode to happiness surfaces without fail at weddings and bar mitzvahs across the globe as a symbol of … niggun) Abraham Zvi Idelsohn, was a European-born Jewish musician who insisted that music and affect were inseparable …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… the earliest surviving specimens of Middle Eastern Jewish musical traditions. By nature of the technological … opportunity to validate historical theories of musical change that have been based solely on the … example, the transcription made by Idelsohn to the popular wedding song "Maq’helot ‘am", a poem by Mordecai Abadi of …
Moshe "Musa" Berlin
… berlin is a clarinet player and one of the leading Klezmer musicians in Israel. He was born in 1938 in Tel Aviv to a family of Hasidut Modzits . Musa’s musical capabilities were discovered at the age of 6 when he … Giora Feidman and played in varied Jewish events such as weddings but also in religious events in the Jewish …
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 … of new Hebrew songs are intended for haflot (parties) and weddings, among other social events in which “Fog al-Nakhal” …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… of its contents in the wider context of Hasidic music research is a desideratum. The present essay, focusing … as the one accompanying the groom towards the bride in the wedding ceremony, or while dancing, in faster tempo. Indeed, … the groom to the synagogue on the Sabbath before the wedding in the Tolna court. The renowned Russian Jewish …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem … de cuna , or lullabies, while endechas (mourning songs), wedding songs, and coplas would accompany holidays and … song. During this period, she sang romances , coplas , wedding songs, and endechas for philologist Manuel Alvar, …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… from archives around the world offer unique vistas on past musical cultures. These findings show the extent to which … in this recording to Weich Shahak that La galana was a wedding song. In the conversation following the song she … Ottoman Empire … Sephardim … Judeo-Spanish Songs … Rhodes … Wedding … Boda … Eastern Sephardi … La Galana: A Very …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone … stored in the shelves of the Lebanese Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research (AMAR). Located in the little … of the day (Salihi & Sa ʿ id 2015, 32); and Egypt’s female wedding musicians, known as the ʿ awalim (sing. ʿ alimah ), …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… in sections according to the different Turkish makam s (musical modes), titled Shirei Israel be-eretz ha-qedem … to makam Rast places this version in the realm of Turkish music. Secondly, the title clearly delineates its … Benassayag de Bendayan. From of the album: “ Ballads, wedding songs, and piyyutim of the Sephardic Jews of Tetuan …
A Hassidic Ritual Dance: The Mitsve Tants in Jerusalemite Weddings
… bridegroom with the bride, as the final public event of the wedding in most Hassidic communities. In our description we … and focus in particular on the structural analysis of its musical and textual aspects. … Hasidic … Hasidim … Hasidic … … Hassidim … Hassidic music … Mitsve tants … Dance … Wedding music … Jerusalem … A Hassidic Ritual Dance: The …