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61. Lord from the Beginning
… God’s blessing for the performance and the occasion, comparable to the initial song in women’s circle dances by Kerala Hindus and Christians (Puthuserry 2001). The Parur version in …
57. In the India Kingdom
… 1:3–7, it begins with description of a lavish event, comparable to the durbar (royal court) scenes in Chavittunatakam … and his daughter are also characteristic of the Kerala Christian folk drama, as is the casual style of colloquial …
17. Blessing Song
… phrases with a blessing song in the repertoire of Knanaya Christians, who traditionally claim to be descended from … as evidence of a shared history, and Swiderski mentions the Christian song’s similarity to passages from “a long tradition of (wedding songs) in Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic poetry.” When the Blessing Song was recorded in 1977 …
2. The Song of Evarayi
… out from Jerusalem, he followed the path of many Jewish, Christian, and Muslim merchants from the Mediterranean in … had engaged in friendly cooperation with Muslim traders (Arab and local), but there is a strong historical memory of … The Evarayi song has several striking parallels to Syrian Christian Malayalam songs from Kerala. The Christian song …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… of a new Hasidic repertoire, an Israeli one, in which Arabic and Turkish tunes, new Yiddish theater melodies, … Duvid Twersky of Tal’noye.” In Holy Dissent: Jewish and Christian Mystics in Eastern Europe , edited by Glenn …
8-11. A Ya Nass!
… Egyptian influences. The ensemble features Zaki Fahami, a Christian Arab singer from Syria, on vocals; Tzion Ibrahim, described … by Aharon as the “best in Iraq,” on qanun; Na‘im, an Iraqi Christian, on violin; and Haskel Shaul, an Iraqi Jew, on …
Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur
… 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 … established an ensemble that consisted solely of Muslim and Christian musicians who performed on Sabbaths and Jewish …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… found employment as a supervisor for kosher meat with a Christian butcher, and functioned as a ba’al kore and … year. This was the time everyone thought he would become a Christian because the only piano was in a priest's house in … concept of the Oriental music, I collected the music of the Arabs, the Turks and the Persians. Yiska’s memoire: [3e] He …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… 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 … based his appeal on the fact that the band also played for Christian and Muslim festivities in the city. See, Marcus, …
Music, Muslims and Jews
… With the rise of Islam and the expanding Arab conquests throughout the Middle East, North Africa and … Jews of Antiquity found themselves living in lands where Arab and Persian cultures and languages predominated. Jews … Turkey, Iran and Central Asia shared with Muslim, Christian and Jewish musicians within a geographical area …