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Ancient Music in the Modern Classroom
… to broaden the horizons of music history to include non-Western and ancient musics was met with eagerness by those who believed that until Western music was seen in the setting of universal history, … 1940: 6). … 23472 … Ancient music … Music history … Non-Western music … Pedagogy … Musicology … Music education … …
Remarks Concerning the Use of the Melograph in Ethnomusicological Studies
… we have used the Melograph for the analyses of non-Western music since 1958. As is well known, Israel has …
Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition
… … Monophony … Jewish … Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition … Edith (Esther) Gerson …
The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
… performed by the precentor or Cantor in the communities of Western Asheknaz (the lands near the Rhine and Upper … - Cantors … Hebrew cantillation … Synagogue music … Western Ashkenaz … Ashkenazi … Cantorial Fantasia … The …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… upward arc, which then descends, in conclusion, to its lowest point at the tonic note. Part A of each stanza quickly … melodies of the other versions, in contrast, remain in a Western minor modality. The above sound examples provide …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… for Kol Israel (Israel Radio) in the 1950’s. This is a very Westernized version of the Ottoman melody and is very … Weider, The Formulation of Jewish Liturgy in the East and West. Vol. 1. Jerusalem, Yad Itzhak Ben Zvi, 1998, 114-115. …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… (Hamburg: M. Lessmann, 1933) published an old niggun from West Prussia transmitted to him by K. Lowenstein. Although …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… a feeling of mercy according to the affects’ conventions of Western music. Yet immediately afterwards, instead of the …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… 13 th century containing our poem (twice) is the French (Western Ashkenazi) order of prayers for the High Holy Days, … poem, and obviously it indicates that in the circle of the (Western Ashkenazi) users of this manuscript there was an … more important from an historical perspective is that this Western Ashkenazi source apparently moved eastwards, as it …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… in the areas that comprise today Lithuania, Belarus, Western Russia, Ukraine and Poland and is now widely … ). The te’amim are organized by level, from highest to lowest disjunctives, with three conjunctives at the bottom. … grounding in tradition in his own family of immigrants from Western Ukraine, close contact with leading cantors in the …