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	John Bilezikjian Sephardic Music, T-Shirts & More
		Music of the Jews who have Turkish, Spanish, Hebrew backgrounds and performed on ancient instruments
		The Hal Leonard Corporation is the largest music company in the world that publishes music course study books, having hundreds of titles in their catalog.
		The book covers: types of ouds, tuning the oud, playing position, how to string the oud, music notation, scales, chords, arpeggios, tremolo technique, studies and exercises, songs and rhythms from Armenia and the Middle East, and a CD with 25 tracks for demonstration and play along.
	www.dantzrecords.com /miscstuf.htm (433 words)

	Religious music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Religious music (also sacred music) is music performed or composed for religious use or through religious influence.
		Monotheism and tonality, all tones relating and resolving to a tonic, are often associated, and the textures of European homophony, equated with monotheism, may be contrasted with Asian heterophony, equated with poly or pantheism.
		Sephardic music, the music of Spanish Jews, was born in medieval Spain, with cancioneros being performed at the royal courts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Religious_music (822 words)

	Sephardic music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sephardic music is the unique music of the Sephardic Jews who are one of the three main ethnicities among Diaspora Jews, the others being the Ashkenazi and Mizrahi.
		Sephardic Jews originally referred just to the Jews from the Iberian Peninsula, but now applies to most of the Mediterranean region as a whole, especially as they have also lived among the Mizrahim for centuries.
		Sephardic music was born in medieval Spain, with cancioneros being performed at the royal courts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sephardic_Music (422 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Sephardic music
		The Sephardic Jews are one of the three main ethnicities among Diaspora Jews, the others being the Ashkenazi and Mizrahi.
		In Arab music a maqam [sic] (plural maqamat) is, a technique of improvisation that defines the pitches, patterns, and development of a piece of music and which is unique to Arabian art music.
		Sephardic Jews poured into Salonika in the wake of the Spanish Inquisition, increasing Salonika's Jewish population from 2,000 Romaniote Jews (Greek speaking Jews) to eleven times that amount (22,000).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sephardic-music (1179 words)

	Music of Morocco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Its music is predominantly Arab, but Andalusian and other imported influences have had a major effect on the country's musical character.
		Morocco is home to the Western Tradition of Sephardic music, which is descended from the Jews expelled from Spain several centuries ago.
		This music is an attempt at reaching a trance state which inspires mystical ecstasy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Morocco (1257 words)

	Zamir Chorale: Resources: Sephardic Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The music, arranged by Joshua Jacobson, reflects the Spanish influence on the Jews of Yugoslavia.
		The music was arranged by Yehezkel Braun and adapted for chorus by Joshua Jacobson.
		In this romance from the repertoire of the Jews of Medieval Spain, Rakhel is courted by a handsome young man, whom she must turn away, for she is a respectable married woman.
	www.zamir.org /resources/Sepharad.html (455 words)

	Sephardic music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Sephardic Jews are one of the two main among Diaspora Jews the other being the Ashkenazi.
		Sephardic Jews originally referred just to the Jews Spain but now applies to the entire region.
		Sephardic music adapted to each of locals assimilating typically Moroccan high-pitched extended ululations Balkan rhythms like 9/8 and maqam the Turkish modal system.
	www.freeglossary.com /Sephardic_music (415 words)

	Sephardic Community of Arizona elects fashion retailer as president - Jewish News of Greater Phoenix
		Michel Benharbon was elected president of the Sephardic Community of Arizona on July 10, replacing one of the organization's founders who announced last week that he didn't plan on running for a sixth term.
		Jacky Sebag, founding president of the Sephardic Community of Arizona, announced to members in a July 5 e-mail that he did not plan to accept another term as head of the organization he helped found in 2001, stating that he wanted to devote more time to family and friends.
		The term "Sephardic" refers to Jews whose ancestors lived in Spain and Portugal, most of whom were expelled in the 1490s during the Spanish Inquisition.
	www.jewishaz.com /issues/story.mv?050715+sephardic (669 words)

	Sephardic Song
		Moroccan Sephardic women are skilled in the piercing ululation they call barwala or youyou (also common in African and Middle Eastern cultures, and as well in certain regions of Spain).
		Sephardic music -in fact, pan-Sephardic music, not only Judeo-Spanish -is primarily vocal: instruments, when they are used, are played to accompany songs.
		While musical traditions have always moved around to some extent from one Sephardic community to another, the unprecedented technological changes of the late 20th century made the circulation of songs much more widespread and rapid.
	www.wzo.org.il /en/resources/view.asp?id=1596 (3150 words)

	World Music Central - Sephardic music
		Sephardic music comprises the songs, mainly ballads, romances (Hispanic narrative ballads) and wedding song lyrics, preserved by communities formed by the Jews expelled from the Iberian Peninsula at the end of the 15th century.
		Instead, Sephardic music has adopted the melodies and rhythms of the various countries where the Sephardim settled in.
		some of the popular lyric songs most often heard on recordings of Sephardic music are actually based on 19th century Spanish compositions, others are versions of the old narrative ballads, life and calendar cycle songs, or local compositions based on events or situations.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /staticpages/index.php/sephardic (422 words)

	Sarah Aroeste: About the Band
		In time, Sarah realized that very few people in America were familiar with Ladino and Sephardic music, so she founded her own music production company, Aroeste Music LLC, to expose this geography of music and make it more accessible to a new and wider audience.
		Combining the various influences that have shaped her, Sarah has created a musical style that mixes traditional Mediterranean Sephardic music with contemporary sensibilities such as rock, funk, jazz and blues.
		Sarah Aroeste is best known for her funky fusion of traditional Mediterranean and Sephardic music with American rock and blues.
	www.saraharoeste.com /biographies.htm (757 words)

	Eye Weekly - Sephardic sonics - 08.29.02
		Coleman's trio Sephardic Tinge has released three albums, the latest of which is called Our Beautiful Garden Is Open, in reference to both the love imagery in the Song of Songs and the signs he sees constantly outside restaurants in the East Village.
		Purists may suggest that Sephardic Tinge bears the same relationship to the traditional trio as the backyard does to the garden, but even though the trio sounds like no other, its music is vital, humorous and even, at times, beautiful.
		The Sephardic musical tradition flourished in Spain and Portugal in the 14th and 15th centuries, although Coleman's own music was influenced by something closer to home: he grew up hearing salsa in a Hispanic neighbourhood in Brooklyn.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_08.29.02/music/coleman.html (745 words)

	The Turkish-Sephardic Music :: TACAWA :: Since 1974
		The Sephardic Jews were able to preserve most of the aspects of their language and culture in the atmosphere of tolerance that reigned in the Ottoman Empire.
		The musical culture that dominated 15th century Spain was a musical culture called the “Romansa”.
		So in time, Sephardic music blended all these influences together and a lot of songs appeared with themes consisting of love, gossip, jealousy, the events of everyday life and all sorts of interpersonal relationships and feelings.
	www.tacawa.org /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=8&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0&POSTNUKESID=e05634aef3a6572ba6706d07e37ede00 (2182 words)

	Interview: Voice of the Turtle: Judeo-Spanish Music in America
		Based in Boston, Voice of the Turtle is one of the best-known groups performing Sephardic music in America.
		The Sephardic folk audience is often conservative; they expect a song to sound similar to the way their family or neighbors performed it.
		Music of the Sephardic Jews has become a creative field for research thanks to scholars like Edwin Seroussi and Isaac Levy.
	www.rootsworld.com /interview/vot.html (1074 words)

	Harmony Ridge Music
		Chilean-Cuban singer/songwriter, explores her Sephardic roots adapting ancient Jewish prayers and ballads from Spain, the Mediterranean and the Middle East into new "World Music" style songs in a passionate marriage of Jewish and Latin soul.
		Sephardic, folk songs of the Spanish-Jews, performed in this collection by Savina Yannatou, consist, in their entirety, of a quite contradictory as well as charming mosaic.
		The European Middle Ages, Byzantium and the Arabic-Pewrsian tradition co-exist with elements from the folk music of the Iberian Peninsula, the Balkans and the wider Mediterranean basin.
	www.hrmusic.com /indexc.html (576 words)

	Harmony Ridge Music
		Although she was tragically taken from us on February 2000, her music and her legend will live forever.
		Not only is the music great and its production done professionally, but the CD's design is outstanding, with lyrics to all the songs alongside colorful portraits of the singer.
		Most of this music, you will not hear on commercial radio, or MTV, you will not find it at Wal Mart, or Amazon.com or any other big business controlled medium.
	www.hrmusic.com (497 words)

	Top 20 Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		General re-evaluation of scripture was prompted by Muslim anti-Jewish polemics and the spread of rationalism, as well as the anti-Rabbanite polemics of Karaite sectarianism (which was inspired by various Muslim schismatic movements).
		Sephardic knowledge of the language and culture of the enemy, their skills as diplomats and professionals, as well as their desire for relief from intolerable conditions - the very same reasons that they had proved useful to the Arabs in the early stages of the Muslim invasion - rendered their services of great value.
		A sizeable Sephardic community had settled in Morocco and other Northern African countries, which were colonized by France in the 19th century.
	encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/Sephardi (4525 words)

	Jewish and Israel News from New York - The Jewish Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Amar is one of the big stars of Mizrahi religious music in Israel, a tenor with a slightly pinched, adenoidal quality to his vocals that is not unpleasant.
		AAAA for the music, AAAA for importance and documentation.
		This marks their first foray into liturgical music and the result is a bit like Turkish pastry, sweet, almost cloying, but with a certain edge that keeps it from becoming unbearable.
	www.thejewishweek.com /news/newscontent.php3?artid=7715 (891 words)

	Amazon.com: Sephardic Tinge: Music: Anthony Coleman Trio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The two Sephardic melodies that bookend the album are especially lovely--interesting to compare "Una Matica De Ruda" to Ran Blake's versions of the theme.
		His work displays a musical and aesthetic depth that is moving as well as intellectually stimulating and his avoidance of klezmer to make a Jewish musical artistic statement is bold.
		The eclectic mix of musical sources: original compositions, sephardic melodies and jazz standards is part of Coleman's aesthetic stance and all of the musical sources are treated with equal musical reverence and irreverence.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000003YTE?v=glance (1045 words)

	Sarah Aroeste: About the Music
		Most influenced by the music and language of her Spanish roots, Aroeste grounds her music in Ladino, or castillian Spanish, the language originated by Spanish Jews after their expulsion from Spain in 1492.
		But the musical legacy of Spanish Jews highlights the strength of an oral tradition that spans many centuries and unites a linguistic group.
		Her family's original Spanish-Greek name, Aroeste, or "of the West," truly reflects her style of music by combining traditional Mediterranean sounds with contemporary rock, funk, jazz and blues.
	www.saraharoeste.com /about.htm (387 words)

	the KlezmerShack: Music: Sephardic Archives
		Simon, of Hatikvah Music, in Los Angeles, has announced that he hopes to be providing this to American customers in the near future.
		Yasmin Levy is a significant new singer of Sephardic music.
		It is a collection of 51 Judeo-Spanish tunes from Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece and Bosnia, collected and edited by Aron Saltiel, one of the leading exponents of the Sephardic music community and a native speaker of Ladino, with transcriptions and an extensive introduction by Josh Horowitz.
	www.klezmershack.com /archives/cat_music_sephardic.html (3477 words)

	Music of the Jews in Medieval Spain
		Musical instruments in medieval Spain include the lute, the hurdy-gurdy, the Muslim oval guitar, the Latin guitar, the Muslim rebec, the viol, "a tiny 2-string fiddle", psaltery, bells, flutes, trumpets, horns, harps, bagpipes, castanets, and the pipe and drum
		A list of Sephardic music disks is found here.
		Judith Cohen is an ethnologist and musician who specializes in Sephardic music.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Academy/8636/Music.html (483 words)

	Harmony Ridge Music
		Aroeste and her international band represent a new style in Sephardic music, bringing ladino rock to a new audience.
		Drawing upon her Greek sephardic roots, as well as her American upbringing, Sarah Aroeste combines traditional instruments such as oud, qanun and darbuka with electric guitar, bass and drums.
		A mostly autodidactic singer born in Jerusalem, where she absorbed the rich and multi-faceted cultural and musical influences of this unique international city.
	www.hrmusic.com /index_israel3.html (693 words)

	Fortuna Web Page Biography, Discography, Reviews, Sound, Online Ordering
		It was during a tour in Israel in 1991 that she heard Sephardic music for the first time.
		This rich and varied culture is the basis of the Ladino repertoire, a musical treasure that never ceased to grow in the new places where the Sephardic Jews settled.
		She has composed music for a poem by the medieval sephardic scholar Yehuda ha-levy and even for well-known Biblical passages such as the "Shems" and "Halleluja".
	www.rahul.net /hrmusic/discos/fdisc.html (2336 words)

	Ud Web / Oud Web
		The Musical Legacies Of Sayyid Makkawi, Munir Bashir and Walid Akel This article, written by Sami Asmar for the Al Jadid magazine in 1998, gives a good introduction to Munir Bashir's life and music.
		Jubilatores The Jubilatores is a performing ensemble specializing in secular music of the Middle Ages.
		Musical Malaysia: Musical Instruments - Gambus In Malaysia the ud is also played, it is called Gambus there.
	www.xs4all.nl /~gregors/ud (3181 words)

	Sephardim.com - links
		The purposeof ETSI (founded in 1998) is to assist those interested in Sephardic genealogy and historical research with emphasis on the Ottoman Empire and North Africa, although the site and magazine attempts to serve as an international exchange.
		Portuguese and Sephardic heritage, history and genealogy on the Island of Madeira by Papagaia.
		The subject of this forum is the research of Sephardic, Anusim and Converso genealogy and related history.
	www.sephardim.com /html/links100.html (2892 words)

	An Unaccustomed Sound
		She frequently collaborates with visual artists and is adept at helping kids interpret musical ideas through art activities.
		In a previous session, she had explained to the students how the Sephardic-themed music played by the LAJS derives from folk tunes reflecting the daily concerns of long-ago Jews.
		Along with its Sephardic curriculum, the LAJS has devised a lesson plan for introducing Klezmer music to schoolchildren.
	www.jewishjournal.com /old/sephardicmusic.4.14.0.htm (792 words)

	JMWC: Research Guide in Jewish Music
		The Sabin Family Music Library holds other important collections including "books, records, tapes, compact discs, sheet music, manuscripts and archives of Jewish music." The Inventory is in English and Hebrew, with details about contents of the numbered boxes and titles within the Synagogue music collections.
		The music collection includes "all of Rosowsky's music published by the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music, 1912-1917." The guide includes a title index of musical works of Solomon Rosowsky and Baruch Leib Rosowsky (1841-1919) held in the collection, including unpublished compositions by B.L. Rosowsky for synagogue.
		Jewish music in Poland between the world wars 1992.Publishing in Yiddish in 1970 on same topic, Fater (Isaschar) writes of Yiddish songs and choruses with words in romanized text.
	www.jmwc.org /jmwc_resmusic.html (2027 words)

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