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In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, when new forms of expressing Jewishness … both in the Yiddish-speaking world as well as in the modern Hebrew song repertoire in the Land of Israel. I am … religious origins and dimensions. The song shows how in the modern period Jewish cultural memory is refracted anew …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… accorded the Binding of Isaac a significant role in pre-modern times (Katz 2008). A Yiddish prose adaptation of the … Yet the most outstanding retelling of this story in pre-modern Yiddish literature is the epic poem Yudisher shtam … 183, fn. 29), making it the most documented poem in pre-modern Yiddish literature (Shmeruk 1967, 202). The surviving …
The Concept of Mode in European Synagogue Chant
… The subject of investigation is the Ashkenazi synagogue mode called Adosem malak shtejger after the initial words … as the second in significance after the Ahavah rabbah mode, but is better suited to an analysis by its more … following examination of the Adosem malak mode is based upon a sample of 30 melodies chosen to …
The Meaning of the Modal Framework in the Singing of Religious Hymns by Christian Arabs in Israel
… more markedly lacking in performance practice. … 23134 … Modes … Modality … Modal system … Christian Arab … Israel … …
The Hebrew Version of Abû l-Salt’s Treatise on Music
… Modern research has failed to add substantially to our … and character have remained practically unnoticed by modern research. The present writer has already had the …
Paradigms of Arabic Modes in the Genizah Fragment Cambridge T.S. N.S. 90,4
… on almost every branch of science and art. Through it, modern research has been able to draw a fairly detailed … Genizah … Geniza … Egypt … Jewish History … Manuscripts … Modes … Arabic modes … Paradigms of Arabic Modes in the Genizah Fragment …
A.Z. Idelsohn: A Pioneer in Jewish Ethnomusicology
… it to its former glory became the task which started the modern search after the true and most ancient sources of …
Numerical Representation of Variants of Orally Transmitted Tunes
… used. Sometimes the affinity of a variant with an ideal model-tune is obvious, sometimes it is hard to recognize, … the proof of the affinity of a variant or contrafact with a model-tune is a frequent problem: it can rarely be solved … The problem of identifying and relating the variants of a model-tune is particularly important, when we compare two or …
Towards a Typology of the Judeo-Spanish Folksong: Gerineldo and the Romance Model
… of the Judeo-Spanish Folksong: Gerineldo and the Romance Model … שושנה וייך-שחק … Tamar Alexander-Frizer … Isaac …
Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… and repertoires in an attempt to entertain a fickle, modernizing, even assimilating public. The cameraman who …