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Israeli folk dancing, performance in honor of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot Mayim Mayim ( Hebrew : מים מים , "water, water") is an Israeli folk dance , danced to a song of the same name. It has become notable outside the Israeli dancing community and is often performed at international folk dance events.
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 ]
Jewish music is the music and melodies of the Jewish people. ... (harp), tof (tambourine), shofar ... Jewish immigrants wrote popular folk music. At first, songs were ...
In 1898, two Jewish historians, Saul Ginsburg and Pesach Marek, embarked on the first effort to create an anthology of Jewish folk music. [3]: 26 The main catalyzer of the movement for national Jewish music, however, was Joel Engel. Engel, composer and music critic, was born outside the Pale of Jewish settlement, and was a completely ...
The Jew's harp, also known as jaw harp, juice harp, or mouth harp, [nb 1] is a lamellophone instrument, consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo tongue or reed attached to a frame. Despite the colloquial name, the Jew's harp most likely originated in Siberia , specifically in or around the Altai Mountains , and is of Turkic origin.
Jew's harp music is Library of Congress Subject Heading M175.J4. [ 2 ] Famous Jew's harpists include the German musicians Father Bruno Glatzl (1721–1773) of Melk Abbey (for whom Albrechtsberger wrote his concerti), Franz Koch (1761–1831), who was discovered by Frederick the Great , [ 3 ] and, "the most famous," [ 4 ] Karl Eulenstein (1802 ...
Kinnor (Hebrew: כִּנּוֹר kīnnōr) is an ancient Israelite musical instrument in the yoke lutes family, the first one to be mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.. Its exact identification is unclear, but in the modern day it is generally translated as "harp" or "lyre", [2]: 440 and associated with a type of lyre depicted in Israelite imagery, particularly the Bar Kokhba coins.
Jewish Music in the 20th century has spanned the gamut from Shlomo Carlebach's nigunim to Debbie Friedman's Jewish feminist folk, and includes through-composed settings of the Avodath Hakodesh ('Sacred Service') by such composers as Ernest Bloch, Darius Milhaud, and Marc Lavry.