The Performance of Jewish and Arab Music in Israel Today: A special issue of the journal Musical PerformanceAmnon Shiloah Israel, with its highly heterogeneous immigrant society, offers to the observer a fascinating instance of multifaceted performance practice. Within a relatively limited area, there are numerous musical traditions and styles which encompass sacred and secular, old and new, folk and sophisticated forms. The ten contributions included in these issues of Musical Performance represent a discussion of the most significant traditions that were established during the period before 1948: the search for the establishment of a new and typically Israeli art and folk music; the attitude of the protagonists of this tendency toward the old exiled traditional heritage of the Jewish people, and the struggle of the immigrants after the creation of the State of Israel to ensure the survival of their musical tradtions as well as to cope with the new physical and cultural environment. Altogether the general scope of these contributions correspond to a large extent to major events which marked the m |
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... professional musicians , academics and music lovers . The journal concerns all aspects of music and provides information , discussion and research from around the world . Individual issues consider concert music , opera , ballet ...
... professional musicians , academics and music lovers . The journal concerns all aspects of music and provides information , discussion and research from around the world . Individual issues consider concert music , opera , ballet ...
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... professional Oriental ensemble of the Israeli Radio . Interestingly , this ensemble which included local Arab musicians , and performed for mixed audiences , did not admit excellent musicians from North Africa , Iran and Central Asia ...
... professional Oriental ensemble of the Israeli Radio . Interestingly , this ensemble which included local Arab musicians , and performed for mixed audiences , did not admit excellent musicians from North Africa , Iran and Central Asia ...
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... professional musicians and little noticed by the audience at large so that a total rejection of the West and the establishment of an absolutely Oriental musical culture in the Yishuv was never seriously considered . Performance in ...
... professional musicians and little noticed by the audience at large so that a total rejection of the West and the establishment of an absolutely Oriental musical culture in the Yishuv was never seriously considered . Performance in ...
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... professional ensemble . Sarah Golinkin , the conductor's daughter , regularly filled in the missing parts ( mostly for the harp ) on the piano.16 Compartmentalization retained in most cases the traditional distinction between external ...
... professional ensemble . Sarah Golinkin , the conductor's daughter , regularly filled in the missing parts ( mostly for the harp ) on the piano.16 Compartmentalization retained in most cases the traditional distinction between external ...
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... professional coach who distributed mimeographed copies of the texts , accompanied the singing on the accordion or another instrument , and instructed the audience in one or two brand new songs each evening . The ticket price was minimal ...
... professional coach who distributed mimeographed copies of the texts , accompanied the singing on the accordion or another instrument , and instructed the audience in one or two brand new songs each evening . The ticket price was minimal ...
Contents
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Havurot Hazemer in Israel | 15 |
The Performance of Arab Music in Israel | 35 |
Ashkenazi Liturgical Music in Israel Today | 51 |
Music and Cantillation in the Sephardi Synagogue | 65 |
Notes on Pronunciation | 81 |
Notes on Contributors | 91 |
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