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Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… has shown in a lifetime of work, the history of Jewish music is really a set of complex, interlocking histories. … expressive system that spanned 'the old home' and 'the new world,' and that offers us today a tiny window into the … those societies. Not intending to document a soon-to-vanish world, filmmakers and film composers deployed a number …
Sounds from the Divine: Religious Musical Instruments in the Ancient Near East
… Music is an indispensable part of religious acts in most, if … all, known cultures of the ancient as well as the modern world. Musical sounds — whether created by human voice or … gods as well as demons and other creatures of intermediate worlds. Besides its function as a conveyer of information …
The Ala-Instrument: its Identification and Role
… Concerning musical instruments, we are fortunate to have many terms, … Examples of drum-making from various parts of the world are relevant, although no direct link is claimed. The … comparisons with other musical cultures from around the world must be made. In making such comparisons, no …
Musical Practices and Instruments in Late Bronze Age Ugarit (Syria)
… provides a wide range of evidence for the reconstruction of musical practice during the Late Bronze Age, at the time of … Cultural associations with the eastern Mediterranean world may also be derived from it. Dated to the last … in the span of time between third-millennium Sumer and the world of the Bible in the first millennium. The temptation …
Aristophanes’ Phrynichos and the Orientalizing Musical Pattern
… archaic Athens felt that they belonged to the vast Ionian world — the Solonian Iaovia , which included East Ionia, … (Kurke 1992: 103). … 23468 … Aristophanes … Phrynichos … Music history … Ancient music … Athens … Ancient Greece … Greece … Aristophanes’ …
Soothing Lyres and epôidai: Music Therapy and the Cases of Orpheus, Empedocles and David
… The psychagogic efficacy of music, namely its power to act on the soul in such a way as … in ancient Greek thought on a likeness between soul and musical harmony. This idea involves also a “harmonious” … order distinguishing human physis as being a part of the world order ( kosmos ), as it is possible to notice at least …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… with them as they migrated, including literary traditions, musical forms and the Judeo-Spanish language, Ladino. The … traditions in the greater Mediterranean and Middle-Eastern world, became blended to a degree with local cultural … young people: the sins on Shabbat incensed the Lord of the world, Who sent us to Dudular. God of the heavens, heavenly …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a … even though major ceremonies of Judaism which include music take place within the circle of the immediate or … which allowed musical and poetic elements from the outside world to enter the Jewish home. The 18 th -century Hassidic …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… role in dramatically shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. … Friedman’s “Shema’ Koleinu” appeared on the album, The World of Your Dreams , which was released in 1993. Right … 'Shema’ Koleinu' appears in Menken’s “A Whole New World” from Aladdin (in the last sentence, “A whole new …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… and below each word. However, the chant also has clear musical features, with a variety of scales, motives, … now widely practiced in Ashkenazi congregations around the world. There are six sets of melodies or “modes” in the … and Roeder 2011, and the journal Analytical Studies of World Music ) and as scholars of Jewish music explore …