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Sounds from under the Ashes: The Music of Cults and Mysteries in the Ancient Vesuvian Land
… In the Roman period, the communities inhabiting the land dominated by the threatening Mount Vesuvius (Fig. 1) … the Greek heritage as their own. It was in fact on the island of Pithekoussai (now Ischia, near Naples) that the first Greeks landed in the beginning of the eighth century BCE. They had …
The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
… or Cantor in the communities of Western Asheknaz (the lands near the Rhine and Upper Danube). It began to appear …
The Liturgy of Beta Israel: Music of the Ethiopian Jewish Prayer
… colleagues, the wine metaphor is a most natural fit. The clandestine aliyah (immigration) of Ethiopian Jews that …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… un pan amargo, ni con agua no se va. Las palombas van volando haciendo estrución. Ya quedimos arrastrando sin tener …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… 1998 JMRC recording Nights in Canaan, Early Songs of the Land of Israel (1882-1946) . … Not all traditional Jewish … appears in the JMRC CD Nights of Canaan: Early Songs of the Land of Israel (Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel 12). … of the ‘Biluyim’ [an early movement of immigration to the Land of Israel, beginning in 1882]. During the 1920s and …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… Europe. Toward the end of his life he wandered to England, and most likely passed away there. Throughout his …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… Seder from Notated Sources (1644-1945) (University of Maryland, 1980.) We have benefitted from her work in the writing … tune was also adopted by the homes of immigrants from the Land of Islam in Israel, launching a new tradition there as … the Eliyahu family Passover seder, immigrants from the Island of Corfú (Greece); NLI, NSA, Yc 34, recorded by Leo …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… of the German soil and its presence further East, in Poland, is understandable in light of its medieval pedigree. … musicians. Both of these musicians immigrated from the lands of origin, Iraq and Egypt, to Israel in the early … internal ethnic divisions between Jews from the different lands of Islam. The music itself transcends such divisions; …
Haggai Ben-Shammai
… professor and research fellow in several universities in England and the U.S.A. (Cambridge, London, Harvard, …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… today Lithuania, Belarus, Western Russia, Ukraine and Poland and is now widely practiced in Ashkenazi congregations … the second syllable. The accented syllable of “ma- pakh ” lands on G with a skip down to D ( 4 to 1 ). [24] Scale … Gesänge des israelitischen Gottesdienstes in Deutschland: Musikwissenschaftliche Untersuchung der in A. Baers …