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Kurt Weill
… musicals that enjoyed tremendous popularity. Weill held the ideal of writing music that served a socially useful …
Ehud Manor
… 'Sabra'. She wanted to sing and thought it was a good idea to take American songs they knew and sing them in …

Soothing Lyres and epôidai: Music Therapy and the Cases of Orpheus, Empedocles and David
… on a likeness between soul and musical harmony. This idea involves also a “harmonious” order distinguishing …
Israel Adler
… examining the wanderings of texts, concepts, and ideas from one source to another. One of these sources … for all those who followed on his steps. A Certain Idea of Music… The Parallel Lives of Israel Adler, Simha …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… musical forms and modal colorations within the genre. These ideas have recently been developed by Raffi Ben-Moshe … by means of the syncopation (measures 9, 11); the aesthetic ideal of rhythmic diversity dictates variation in rhythm … elite, which finds expression, inter alia, in the Hasidic ideal of kingship (Assaf 2002). We will look at three …
Efraim Yaakov
Efraim Yaakov was born in 1953 and raised in Nahariya, to a family from Hogeriya in…
‘Le-El ‘Olam’ by Mordecai Dato: In search of a melody for an ancient Italian Hebrew poem
… of Ancona. Dato also composed a long poem connected to the idea of Qabbalat Shabbat , ‘Ora vien o bella sposa’ ( Come …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… good and merciful attributes of God. We will see how these ideas are expressed in Friedman’s composition. The following … and because of its festive character, is used to express ideas and texts related to glory, kingdom, and lordship. …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… there to see him. While in Memel (then Prussia), the idea came to me to go to Konigsberg, to Eduard Birnbaum. He … for good Jewish melodic taste and he gave me also an idea of classic music from the works of Bach, Haendel, … converted Jew who developed in me Germanistic, chauvinistic ideas. His brother, Victor H.[ollander], who was also …