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German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to the scholarly … for the symbolic public display, through the language of music, of new evolving aesthetic ideals, of Jewish public … in libraries and archives, notably printed and manuscript scores, archival recordings, private estates of composers, …
Moshe Cordova
… m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our knowledge … career as a synagogue singer and composer. Parallel to his musical career he developed a business in the field of … sanctuary in south Tel Aviv. Two substantial collections of scores of more than one hundred compositions by Cordova and …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take on assumed black music tastes) on which all of Berlin’s early works centred. … these according to our contemporary prejudices; Berlin scores points from his biographers for having insisted that …
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 … dedicate more than a footnote to these Jewish Portuguese scores from Amsterdam, which he knew via the copies in …
Three Musical Ceremonies for Hôšanā Rabbah in the Jewish Community of Casale Monferrato (1732, 1733, 1735) (Hebrew)
… ' … Our main source of information as regards the musical events at the Jewish community of Casale Monferrato … State Library in Moscow. The manuscript contains three musical scores for ceremonies on hos'ana rabbah . Each ceremony …
Between Tradition and Modernity
… Maier Levi of Esslingen is volume 12 of the JMRC's Yuval Music Series. The new production comprises 179 liturgical … book: “Maier Levi bequeathed to posterity a manuscript of musical scores, a ‘cantorial compendium,’ that must be regarded as …
Shir hama’alot - The umbilical cord between liturgical and domestic soundspheres in Ashkenazi culture
… mibeit Abba", produced by Renanot : Institute for Jewish music. CD1703 in the National Sound Archive. Score example … the typical melodies of the yearly cycle was a widespread musical custom of German-speaking Jews. [2] In many ways … tradition of Frankfurt which was widely documented in scores and sound recordings. The examples given below refer …
The Klezmer Tradition in the Land of Israel
… Full Volume Online in NLI website … 57 … 57 … 2 … Yuval Music Series … Yuval Music Series … 34105 … Jerusalem … Jewish Music Research Centre … Yuval Music Series … … Traditions … …
Yiddish Theater: A Love Story
… Spaisman herself, Shifra Lerer who discusses and plays music of hers and her husband, Ben Zion Vitler, who helped … of the Yiddish theater world such as piles of the original scores for many of the old plays. An additional important … the language, to the costumes, to the set designs, and the music. Three songs are sung on stage including Hirshbein's …
The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
… founders were the “Marranos and Anusim, who brought music with them from the Catholic church.” [1] He offers the … In addition to being a rabbi he was also a professional musician, like Salomone de Rossi, which could explain why he … attempts, however, did not last long and the surviving scores did not always reliably document the chanted melody. …