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Clara Wenz
… Clara Wenz is an ethnomusicologist specializing in Middle Eastern music, music and sound studies, political … between Europe and the Middle East. Her current research project chronicles the present and past lives of a …
Stefanie Mockert
… Mockert, who graduated in Musicology from Humboldt University, Berlin, is a researcher at the Hebrew University's Jewish Music Research Centré. Her studies focus on the liturgical …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone … stored in the shelves of the Lebanese Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research (AMAR). Located in the little mountain village …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… modestly titled “Unsere erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , … 1794). Arguing against writers who maintained that the music of Jewish communities can be reduced to a common … of historical interest. Even the “father” of Jewish music research, Abraham Z. Idelsohn , did not dedicate more than a …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… in sections according to the different Turkish makam s (musical modes), titled Shirei Israel be-eretz ha-qedem … Basin ve Yayin, Ottoman-Turkish Sephardic Culture Research Center, 2009. (Book, 5 CDs and DVD) The piyyut … to makam Rast places this version in the realm of Turkish music. Secondly, the title clearly delineates its …
Yonatan Turgeman
… PhD candidate in the Hebrew University Musicology Department, a fellow of the PhD Honors Program in the Mandel School of Advanced Studies, and an active musician ('Avodot Afar'). His dissertation, 'The Science of … of the first Musicology departments in the 1960's. His research is dedicated to issues of scientific approaches to …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent passing of … one of the most distinguished and long-standing Moroccan musicians in Israel. This short note prepared by JMRC … from these manuscripts that Chetrit transcribed for his research on Judeo-Arabic poetry from Morocco. For now, …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… eighteenth centuries (Dreeßen 1971, 9-31). Philological research, however, suggests that the poem itself was … century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records … Such remarks provide little information concerning the music itself, yet they offer valuable insights for the …
The Hebrew Version of Abû l-Salt’s Treatise on Music
… Modern research has failed to add substantially to our knowledge of … or of his works, which include a treatise on the science of music. The information available continues to be based … and composition, and his theoretical writings on music. An extensive musical treatise of his has come down to …
The Reliability of Oral Transmission: The Case of Samaritan Music
… concerning the processes of oral transmission of musical culture, the selection of informants in ethnomusicological research is necessarily haphazard. Yet, without a clear idea …