Musical Composition in Modern Israel

Ringer, Alexander L.

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“…With little Hebrew, and with their academic training in Western melodies and harmonies outweighing much of the possible impact of Arabic music on their work, men like Ben-Haim, Lavry and Avidom renounced dissonance and structural experimentation for a pastoral lyricism inspired by pioneer songs. In doing so, they were consciously rejecting their German urban past and turning to the folk idiom and to French, post-Impressionistic compositional methods (Ringer 1965). Boskovich, however, believed that composing in a European style would have been out of place, and recommended that new Jewish music in Palestine and Israel should turn to Arabic music, to the sounds of Hebrew in a Sephardic accent and to the Arabic language as sources of inspiration (Hirshberg 2009, p. 98).…”

Section: Art Music In Pre-state Palestinementioning

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The Israeli Music Scene: An Essay in Secular Culture

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2010

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This essay deals with some issues relating to music in Israel. Many regard music as a universal language bridging barriers thrown up by spoken tongues, but there is more to music than meets the ear, for music divides by ethnicity, social class and age. Since the middle 1960s when classic Israeliness began to be challenged, Israeli culture has become much more contentious. Canonical highbrow culture was important in creating Israel's social structure, especially differences between Ashkenazim and Mizrahim. Thus classical ''art'' music is jostled for supremacy by such genres as Israel rock, musica mizrahit, Mediterranean music, and exposure to global pop cultures. Israeli culture has developed an open market in which everyone competes for devotees.

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Section: Art Music In Pre-state Palestinementioning

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The Israeli Music Scene: An Essay in Secular Culture

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2010

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fifty years of electronic music in israel

Gluck

2005

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The history of electronic music composition, technologies and institutions is traced from the founding of the State of Israel in 1948. Core developments are followed beginning with the founding generation including Joseph Tal, Tzvi Avni and Yizhak Sadai, continuing with the second and third generations of musicians and researchers, living in Israel and the United States. The institutional and political dynamics of the field in this country are explored, with a focus on the challenges of building an audience and institutional support, as well as prospects for the future.

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Musical Composition in Modern Israel

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The Israeli Music Scene: An Essay in Secular Culture

The Israeli Music Scene: An Essay in Secular Culture

fifty years of electronic music in israel

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