The Performance of Jewish and Arab Music in Israel Today

A special issue of the journal Musical Performance

Amnon Shiloah

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781317756460
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music

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

Index

‘Abbūd, Shaul 75

‘Abdul Wahāb 37 n.1, 40, 46

Abū Khurūj 36

Acre 36

Aharon, Ezra 2, 11, 12, 35, 36, 74, 75

Aldema, Gil 19

Aleppo 66, 70

Almani, Yosef 75

Ammar, Rahamim 72, 78

Arab (s) 9, 12, 35 passim; art music 2, 79; congress of Arab, music 1, 3, 35, 74; department of music 37; dress 7; folk music 1, 2, 42; forms and genres: ‘atāba 42; ĥidā’ 42; mijāna 42; mḥorabe 42; muwashshaḥ (at) 35, 38, 39, 79; samā‘i 42, 46; zajal 38;’song books 38; wdding 7

arrangements 10, 27; harmonization 19, 55; homophonic textures 19, 22; polyphonic textures 19, 22; free-organum 22

Ashqar, Maron 36, 37, 38

Ashknazi, Mordekhai 78

Atrash, Farīd 40 n.3

Aṡhkenazim, Ashkenazi 2, 5, 8, 30, 31, 51 passim, 72

Avi-Ezer, I., 38

‘Avot, Tractate of (Ethics of the Fathers) 70, 72

Azzam family 37

Baghdad 65, 66

baroque 18

baqqashot 67, 70, 71, 75

Bashari, Gila 12

Bass, W. 52

Bathish, I. 35

Ben-Arih, Yhoshua 8 n.11

Ben-Yisrael, Y. 78

Bedouim (s) 2, 5, 6

Binyamin of Tudela 66

Birnbaum, Eduard 54

Bnei ‘Akiva 60

Bohlman, P. 10 n.8

Boskovitch, A. 11. 11, 12

British mandate 5, 35, 36, 37, 57

Cabbala, Cabbalist (s) 70

cantillation 58, 63, 65, 67

cantor (s) cantorial 2, 55, 57, 58, 60, 61, 65, 66 passim; academies 52; appointments 63; art 51; Ashkenazi 51 passim; concerts 51, 61; festival 51; institute 54; 61; 75; musicianship 52; pieces 75; professional 54; prowess 72; school (s) 63; sephardi 65 passim

change 1, 2, 8, 60, 72

Chagy, B. 58

choir (s), choral, chorus (es) 10, 16, 24, 27, 30, 35, 36, 38, 39, 52, 55, 57, 60, 65, 70, 72, 74, ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Performers between East and West – Ideology and Reality in the Yishuv
• Ḥavurot Hazemer in Israel A Unique Sociomusicological Phenomenon
• The Performance of Arab Music in Israel
• Ashkenazi Liturgical Music in Israel Today
• Music and Cantillation in the Sephardi Synagogue
• Notes on Pronunciation
• Glossaries
• Notes on Contributors
• Index