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Book Review: Music’s Making - The Poetry of Music; The Music of Poetry

… Cherlin’s musical tastes extend well beyond the classical western canon? These are all essential aspects of the … Since the ninth century in France, musicians from the western traditions have felt that the benefits of pitch and …

An Early Twentieth-Century Sephardi Troubadour: The Historical Recordings of Haim Effendi of Turkey

El barón despreciado (Barona vo azerte)

… One of the most famous Ladino songs in Western European style (probably French) made known by Haim …

Rebbe Dovidl Twersky of Talne (1808–1882) with his musical clock (Wiki)

Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre

… in music: While a significant portion of Polish and western Galician nigunim tended to an openness to the western European musical fashions and accumulated chordal … abandoned their old nigunim. However, their openness to Western fashions and continual musical innovation became a …

Hablo con coraje + El ardoroso amor (Avlo con coradje, Avlo con coragio)

… Love song in a clearly Western style and in 6/8. It consists of quatrains of long …

Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur

… During his career in Israel, Zaarur also met with renowned Western classical musicians, among them Leonard Bernstein and …

Shabbat and Year Cycle Songs from the Collection of James Levy

… Simhat Torah … Sukkot - Tabernacles … Yom Kippur … Purim … Western Sephardic … James Levy … Shabbat and Year Cycle Songs …

A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)

… in all their variants. Although aligned mostly with the Western Sephardic tradition, it contains unique texts such as … reveals, indeed shows a certain allegiance to the Western Sephardic traditions, especially those from Livorno. … ending of the whole piece that would be most natural for a Westernized audience such as the Comtadin Jews. It is hard, …