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Sep 8, 2017 · Lebanon’s revival of Arab music traditions. In the mountains above Beirut, one organisation is breathing life back into a treasured period of Arab music history. The foundation has around...
- Introduction
- The Middle Eastern Context
- The Three Streams of Jewish Music
- Ashkenazi
- Sephardi
- Mizrahi
- Sephardi and Mizrahi Differentiated
- Jewish Music - Devotional and Secular
- Devotional
- Secular
The Jewish people and their music have their roots in the Middle East, specifically in the land of Israel, and their branches everywhere. They have lived, for over 2000 years, amongst many cultures, both Eastern and Western - from Iran to Israel, to the Western Mediterranean and North Africa, to Europe, and most recently, the Americas. Thus, there ...
To place Jewish Music in its root context, a brief outline of Middle Eastern Music follows. Music of the Middle East generally belongs to the modal, or melodic traditions of music. Here harmony, as it has been practiced in the Western World, is not emphasized. Rather, melodic intricacy and ornamentation, including 1/4 tones, and rigorous rhythmic d...
We can describe Jewish Music as having three distinct streams. One is the Ashkenazi, or Western stream. This includes Klezmer, and is music originating in Eastern Europe and extending to the rest of Europe and the Americas. The second stream is the Sephardi, which refers to Mediterranean cultural sources, including Spain, Portugal, North Africa, Gr...
The music that originated in Eastern Europe (the Balkans, Romania, Bulgaria, among others) and moved westward and northward throughout Europe and later into North America, belongs to the Ashkenazi tradition. It includes Klezmer music. 'Klezmer' means 'instruments of song', from theHebrewwords 'klei zemer'. It has come to denote the musician himself...
This stream refers to music that originated around the Mediterranean, from Spain and North Africa to Turkey and Greece. 'Sephardi' literally means Spanish, and alludes to the fact that until the Spanish expulsion of all non-Christians in 1492, a very fruitful Jewish culture existed in Spain; when these Jewish communities were expelled they migrated...
The music of Eastern Jews, from the Eastern Mediterranean and eastward into Asia can be designated as the Mizrahi stream of Jewish Music. 'Mizrahi' literally means 'Eastern'; this music is the child of the interaction between Jewish people and the cultures of Arabia, Turkey, and Persia. Generally, this encompasses the following countries: Israel, E...
In current parlance the terms Sephardi and Mizrahi are often used interchangeably. The reasons for this are as follows: firstly, so many Jews who lived around the Mediterranean (Sephardim) over the centuries share many cultural traits with their more easterly counterparts (Mizrahi-yim), including the Arabo-Turko-Persian musical tradition. Secondly,...
As mapped out in diagram 2 below, Jewish Music can be classified as either devotional or secular, depending on its content and function.
Music for Synagogue Worship - Included in this category is the art of the Cantor (in Hebrew: Hazan), who utilizes specific modes and melodies, and the art of Biblical cantillation, with its ancient...Other Religious Music - Melodies utilized to heighten devotional fervour, especially the melodies of the Hassidim; also, religious poetry, sung in the Synagogueor at home.This is music played at life passage events: Weddings, Bar-Mitzvas, Bat-Mitzvas, and other communal celebrations. Both instruments and voice are utilized in this music. It can be very rhythmic and have popular, even romantic texts. One may include in this category all Jewish Folk and Popular Music whose context lies outside the religious domain.
During the fifteen-year civil war and the Israeli occupation of Lebanon, most of the Lebanese music stars moved to Cairo or Paris, with a large music scene in Beirut only returning after 1992. Modern pop stars include Najwa Karam , Diana Haddad , Nawal Al Zoghbi , Elissa , Ragheb Alama , Walid Toufic , Wael Kfoury , Fares Karam , Amal Hijazi ...
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The music of Israel is a combination of Jewish and non-Jewish music traditions that have come together over the course of a century to create a distinctive musical culture. For almost 150 years, musicians have sought original stylistic elements that would define the emerging national spirit. [1]
May 25, 2011 · Lebanon: The evolution of traditional music. Using music to build bridges of understanding between the East and the West.
Oct 12, 2020 · No doubt, many Israelis have been exposed to the musical giants of Tarab - traditional Arab music that emphasizes long melodic notes - in the synagogue, after Iraqi-born Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef allowed religious hymns to be set to these melodies.
Israel also has cultivated a rich tradition of classical European music. The Palestine Orchestra was founded in 1936 by Bronislaw Huberman, who anticipated the coming war against the Jewish people in Europe and took scores of other Jewish musicians from Europe with him to Palestine.
