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The Music and its Function in the Singing of the Qasīd anda birabbī dī kalaq (Hebrew)
… The Jewish Yemenite collection of poems - the Diwan - … Jews … Yemenite community … Poems … Singing … Diwan … The Music and its Function in the Singing of the Qasīd anda …

Towards an Interdisciplinary Study of Jewish Oral Traditions
… the need for pursuing the study of the oral aspect of Jewish traditions on a well-defined interdisciplinary basis. … and of interdisciplinary methodology in the context of Jewish studies; the theoretical framework in which such an … framework and tools for the use of linguists, historians, musicologists, anthropologists, and others. … 9431 … Oral …

Plurivocality in the Liturgical Music of the Jews of San‘a (Yemen)
… Musicologists today agree that the traditional music of the … a main concern in the ethnomusicological studies of this Jewish tradition. Indeed, several scholars have striven - … is one of the most salient characteristics of Yemenite Jewish music. In this article we will attempt to define the …

Inventing Jewish Music
… It was 1848, and the music of central Europe's Jewish communities was in a state … sense of isolation and abandonment. The very nature of Jewish identity was being questioned from within Jewish …

Sur le concept de musique juive
… sur ses productions. … 9431 … Twenty-first century … Jewish music … Jewish music research … Musicology … Sur le concept de …

Orality as Religious Ideal: The Music of East-European Jewish Prayer
… As a consequence of this attitude, great compositions of music - such as those of Beethoven - were often imagined as … idea. … 9479 … Orality … Eastern Europe … Prayer … Jewish Prayer … Jewish … Jewish music … Religious music … Orality as …

Music in Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah in Northern Africa
… More than any other Jewish group, the Northern African community has adopted the … differs from those prevalent in other parts of the Jewish world; its most characteristic feature is the … Jews … Zohar … Sixteenth (16th) Century … Kabbalah … Music in Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah in Northern Africa … …

Salamone Rossi as a Composer of "Hebrew" Music
… of Solomon,' marks a milestone in the history of sacred music as the first and, until the nineteenth century, … practically only collection of religious works by a Jewish composer of art music. They were written for various … Rossi … Rossi, Salamone, 1570?-ca. 1630 … Composer … Jewish composers … Art Music … Seventeenth (17th) Century … …

Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardi Melodies of Qinot for the Ninth of Av
… of qinot melodies for the Ninth of Av (the date on the Jewish calendar that commemorates the destruction of the … Temple in Jerusalem) constitutes one of the most ancient musical repositories in the Sephardi liturgy. Of particular … order of the four fasts.” … 9415 … Sephardi … Sephardic Jewish people … Western Sephardi tradition … Sephardi …

The Training of Hazzanim in Nineteenth-Century Germany
… one generation to the next, from a hazzan skilled in the musical tradition to a young novice eager to learn, still … Cantors … 9613 … 19th (Nineteenth) Century … 19th century jewish history … Jewish Culture Germany … Hazzanut … Hazzanim - Cantors … …