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Ten Zemirot Ami: New Melodies for Piyyutim from the Aleppo Mahzor (1527)
… ‘ami is the second disc in the new “Contemporary Jewish Music” series of the Jewish Music Research Centre. This new series differs in character … now involved in integrating the piyyut with the art of the Arabic maqam : R. David Menahem , Roni Ish-Ran, Yair Dalal, …

Remarks Concerning the Use of the Melograph in Ethnomusicological Studies
… The Melograph, by now, has become part and parcel of ethnomusicological research and no longer needs an introduction. … Jews from many different cultural backgrounds, as well as Arab communities whose culture has remained intact. Our work … the maqamat , a study of the liturgical music of Christian Arabs in Israel, and an examination of the changes occurring …
Taqsim in Maqam Madmi
… Century … Taqsim (pl. Taqasim) … 20th (Twentieth) Century … Arab Music … Middle East … Nay … Taqsim in Maqam Madmi …
Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur
… Childhood and early musical career Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur (يوسف زعرور) was born … vocal repertoire of his community and to the Iraqi Arab singing style. Yossef is not to be confused with his … especially after the two had met at the 1932 Congress of Arabic Music in Cairo (see more below). Al-Akkad al-Saghir …
Israel J. Katz
… of the Sephardic Jews. Katz served as editor of Ethnomusicology (1970–72); for the Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council, he was editor (1977–70), coeditor (with … Henry George Farmer and the First International Congress of Arab Music (Cairo 1932) (2015). Source: Shiloah, Amnon. …
Robert Lachmann
… at the University of London, with a focus on French and Arabic languages. During World War I he served as an … It was there that Lachmann was first exposed to non-Western music and folklore, and he began working on transcriptions … heading a project to translate several important Medieval Arabic music treatises. In 1930, along with fellow teachers …
Taqsim in Maqam Hijaz
… … Twentieth (20th) Century … 20th (Twentieth) Century … Arab Music … Middle East … Oud … Taqsim (pl. Taqasim) … Taqsim in …

The Meaning of the Modal Framework in the Singing of Religious Hymns by Christian Arabs in Israel
… we mean the accepted framework in which a certain musical repertoire is organized, as for instance, the Maqamat in Arab music or the Raga in Indian. Modal frameworks are … … 23134 … Modes … Modality … Modal system … Christian Arab … Israel … Religious music … Hymns … Singing … The …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… in the Jewish past. A case in point is the scholar and musician Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern … of many backgrounds came to see him, Hasidim, Yemenites, Arabs, falla h im, [3] Georgians, Sephardic Jews, kushim , … When we reached Jericho, we stayed at a hotel owned by Arabs. Everything there was in a very primitive state. Date …
Hay ram galeh
… it became major hub for liturgical and paraliturgical music in the modern western section of Jerusalem. It also … Aleppo muwashsha h at and the rising new styles of Egyptian Arabic music developing from the late 19 th century onwards. … The new Egyptian song became hegemonic throughout the Arab world partly due to the development of the music …