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Leó Weiner
… Leó Weiner was born in Budapest. He had his first music and piano lessons from his brother, and later studied at the Academy of Music in Budapest, studying with János (Hans) Koessler. … one composition: his Serenade, Op. 3. In 1908, he became a theory teacher at the Budapest Academy of Music. He was …
Yaqub Murad al-‘Amari (aka Yaqub Bar-Nay)
… occupations out of necessity. Wrote a manuscript on Iraqi music theory but was discouraged by lack of recognition for his … both recorded by IBA in 1970. Articles: Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited by Esther Warkov. …
Curt Sachs
… Born in Berlin, Sachs studied piano, music theory and composition as a youth in that city. He began a … as an art historian, but promptly became more devoted to music, eventually being appointed director of the Staatliche …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and music. The neighborhood had grown around an absorption … be fired at the kiln and put up for sale, and a traditional music and dance troupe . Also named Meseret , the troupe … parents. Finally, there is no engagement with critical theory and the prism it brought to ethnomusicology in the …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector … A lengthy introduction provides ample historical and musical contexts. Karnes did not spare any effort in trying … world” (p. xxvii). This idea is of course a critique of the theory of the proto-Indo-European roots of European …
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 … by philosophical aesthetics, social history, and critical theory. Mockert has been involved in the joined research …
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 … One can be found in recent scholarship on Actor-Network Theory (ANT), the other comes from the field of archeology. …
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 an academic discipline. His book, 'The Bridge is Dead: A Theory & Short History of Everyday Songs in Hebrew', was …
Fragment hébraïque d’un traité attribué a Marchetto de Padoue
… texte d'un recueil de trois textes hébraïques de théorie musicale conservés dans le Ms. Hébreu 1037 de la … … Manuscripts … Manuscript … Hebrew manuscript … Treatise … Music Treatise … Music theory … Fragment hébraïque d’un traité attribué a Marchetto …
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, … about the past has not been provided.' Of course, no single theory can be expected to apply to all societies, since the …