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BOOKS
Berner, Alfred. Studien zur arabischen Musik: auf Grund der gegenwartigen Theorie und Praxis in Agypten. Schriftenreihe des Staatlichen Instituts fur Deutsche Musikforschung 2. Leipzig: Fr. Kistner and C.F.W. Siegel, 1937.
Bohlman, Philip V. The World Centre for Jewish Music in Palestine 1936-1940. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1922.
The Land Where Two Streams Flow: Music and the German-Jewish Community of Israel. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1989.
Farmer, Henry George. A History of Arabian Music to the 13th Century. London: Luzac & Co., Ltd., 1967.
Fleisher, Robert: Twenty Israeli Composers: Voices of a Culture; forward by S. Ran. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997.
Fromm, Herbert. On Jewish Music: A Composerâs View. New York: Bloch, 1978.
Gradenwitz, Peter. The Music of Israel: from the Biblical Era to Modern Times. Second ed. revised & expanded. Portland, Oregon: Amadeus Press, 1996.
Music and Musicians in Israel: A Comprehensive Guide to Modern Israeli Music. 3rd ed. revised, rewritten and enlarged. Tel Aviv: Israeli Music Publications Ltd., 1978.
Heskes, Irene, Passport to Jewish Music: Its History, Traditions, and Culture. Contribution to the Study of Music and Dance 33. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.
Hirshberg, Jehoash: Music in the Jewish Community of Palestine 1880-1948: a Social History. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995; published in the US by Oxford University Press Inc., New York
Idelsohn, Abraham Z. Jewish Music in its Historical Development. New York: Tudor Pub. Co., 1944; c. 1929 by Henry Holt and Co., Inc.
Jenkins, Jean & Olsen, Poul Rovsing. Music and Musical Instruments in the World of Islam. London: Horniman Museum; World of Islam Festival Publishing Co. Ltd, 1976.
Keren, Zvi: Contemporary Israeli Music: its Sources and Stylistic Development. Ramat Gan, Israel: Bar-Ilan Univ. Press, 1980.
Morgan, Robert P., ed. Modern Times: from World War I to the Present. Englewood Cliffs, N.Y.: 1994; first published in the UK, Hampshire and London: the MacMillan Press Ltd., 1993.
Schwartz, Elliot, and Childs, ed., Barney, Contemporary Composers on Contemporary Music. New York: Da Capo Press, 1978.
Shiloah, Amnon. Jewish Musical Traditions. Jewish Folklore and Anthropology Series. Detroit: Wayne St. Univ. Press, 1992.
______, Amzalag, A., et al. ha-Moreshet ha-Musikalit shel kahilot yisrael (the Musical Heritage of the Communities of Israel), vol, 4. Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv: ha-Universitah ha-Patuah (the Open University), 1987.
Tischler, Alice. A Descriptive Bibliography of Art Music by Israeli Composers. Studies in Music Bibliography 62. Warren, Michigan: Harmonie Park, 1998.
Touma, Habib Hassan. The Music of the Arabs. Translated by Laurie Schwartz.Portland, Oregon: Amadeus Press, 1996.
Wright, Owen. The Modal System of Arab and Persian Music A.D. 1250-1300. Oriental Series 28. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, S. Sadie and J. Tyrell, ed. London: Macmillan Press, 2001.
Articles:
Bohlman, Philip V. "Middle East," xvi, 626-39.
Davies, Ruth. "Mode: Middle East and Central Asia," xvi, 831-37.
Hirshberg, Jehoash. "Israel I: Art music. "Arab Music: Art music after 1918," i, 812-24.
Schleifer, Eliyahu. "Jewish Music: Synagogue music and its development," xiii, 39-46.
Seroussi, Edwin. "Jewish Music: Liturgical and paraliturgical: Sephardi," xiii, 59-60.
Shiloah, Amnon. "Israel: Arab music," xii, 632.
Wright, Owen. "Arab Music: Art music," i, 797-812.
Biographies:
Assaf, Oded. "Yinam Leef."
Elias, William Y. and Sharvit, Uri. "Oedoen Partos."
Elias, William and Mishori, Nathan. "Ben-Zion Orgad."
Eppstein, Ury. "Ehrlich Abel;" "Ami Maâayani."
Gerstel, Miri. "Tzvi Avni;" "Noam Sheriff."
Hirshberg, Johoash. "Paul Ben-Haim;" "Tsippi Fleischer;" "Mark Kopytman;" "Haim Permont;" "Josef Tal."
Seter, Ronit. "Betty Olivero;" "Mordechai Seter."
Bartok, Bela. "The Influence of Peasant Music on Modern Music. In "Contemporary Composers on Contemporary Music, edited by Elliott Schwartz and Barney Childs. New York: Da Capo Press, 1978.
Asian Music XVII/2, (1986): 1-8.
Bohlman, Philip. "The Immigrant Composer in Palestine, 1933-1948: Stranger in a Strange Land." Asian Music, XVII/2 (1986): 147-167.
Flam, Gila. "Beracha Zephira A Case Study of Accultuation in Israeli Song." Asian Music XVII/2 (1986): 108-12.
Loeb, Laurence D. "The Jewish Musician and the Music of Fars." Asian Music 4/1 (1972): 3-14.
Miller, Leta E. and Lieberman, Fredric. "Lou Harrison and the American Gamelan." American Music 17:2 (summer 1999): 146-78.
Morgan, Robert P. "The Modern Age." In Modern Times: From World War I to the Present, edited by Robert P. Morgan. Englewood Cliffs N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1994.
Ringer, Alexander L. "Musical Composition in Modern Israel." In Contemporary Music in Europe: A Comprehensive Survey, edited by Paul Henry Lang and Nathan Border. New York: G. Schirmer, Inc., 1965. Essays written for the 15th anniversary issue of The Musical Quarterly, January 1965.
Seroussi, Edwin. "The Turkish Makam in the Musical Culture of the Ottoman JewSources and Examples." Israel in Musicology 5 (1990): 43-68.
Shiloah, Amnon. " The Arabic Concept of Mode." Journal of the American Musicological Society xxxiv (1981): 19-42.
Shiloah, A. & Cohen, Erik. "The Dynamics of Change in Jewish Oriental Ethnic Music in Israel." Ethnomusicology XXVII/2 (May 1983): 227-251.
Silber, Laya Harbater. "Ami Maâayani and the Yiddish Art Song (Part II)." Musica Judaica 9:1 (1986-87): 47-64.
Spector, Johanna. "Classical âUd Music in Egypt with Special Reference to Maqamat." Ethnomusicology XIV (1970): 243-257.
Tenzer, Michael. "Western Music in the Context of World Music." In Modern Times: From World War I to the Present," edited by Robert P. Morgan. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1994.
Touma, Habib Hassan. "The Maqam Phenomenon: An Improvisational Technique in the Music of the Middle East." Ethnomusicology XV (1971): 38-48.
Tsuge, Genâichi. "A Note on the Iraqi Maqam." Asian Music 4/1 (1972): 59-66.
Warkov, Esther. "Revitalization of Iraqi-Jewish Instrumental Traditions in Israel: The Persistent Centrality of an Outsider Tradition." Asian Music XVII/2 (1986): 9-31.
Wolpe, Stefan. "Music Old and New in Palestine; Modern Music." League of Composers XVI/3 (1938-39): 156-9.
Israel Music Institute Homepage: http://www.aquanet.co.il/vip/imi/indma.htm
IMI Composer Gallery: http://www.imi.org.il/composer.asp
Israel FAXX; many links, including Jerusalem Music Center, Archive of Israeli Music (Tel Aviv University), Tel Aviv Music Center, Jewish Music Home page, Radio Israel, Israeli Ethnic Music...: http://www.israelfaxx.com/links/israelimusic.html
Fleischer, Tsippi. CD reviews: vocal music: http://members.nbci.com/_XMCM/tsfleischer/Reviews.htm
"The Kuopio-Finland International Seminar on ÎThe Middle East as a Cultural Source." As published in the February 1995 ILWC Journal: http://music.acu.edu/www/iawm/articles/feb95/finland.html
Kaye, Helen. "Twentieth-century music is out of the closet." Jerusalem Post Internet Edition (4/2/2000): http://jpost.com/Editions/2000/03/09/Culture/Music.3784.html pp. 1-4
Klasskis, Keith. "Baremboim conducts Wagner at Israel Festival." Vienna Online (August 2001): http://www.geocities.com/viennaonline/feature/feature080 1 barenboim.html
Kojaman, Yeheskel. "Jewish Role in Iraqi Music." The Scribe: http://www.dangool.com/72page42.html
Nachman, Myrna. "Reviews: Tsippi Fleischer: Art Music Settings of Arabic Poetry." As published in the IAWM Journal, October 1995, pp.42-43:http://music.acu.edu/www/iawm/articles/oct95/nachman.html
Peles, Joseph. "The Many Faces of Israeli Music." IMI-News on-line (8/9/02): http://www.aquanet.co.il/vip/news/peles.htm pp. 1-8
Spitz, Irving. "Music Festivals in Israel: Solace for the troubled." Education Update Online (February 2002): http://educationupdate.com/feb02/htmls/mad_spitz.html
Yannay, Yehuda. "Encountering the Boskovich Legacy A Generation Later." IsraelMusicInstitut catalogs: http://www.aquanet.co.il/vip/imi/yannay.htm
"The Arabic music page: modes" (Lebanese National Conservatory) http://leb.net/rma/modes.html
Israeli music: http://www.israelhour.com/links.html
UCLA Ethnomusicology Department ö links to Middle Eastern music sites: http://members.tripod.com/~dorakmt/music/linkmid.html
A short bibliography of Sephardic music: http://www.klezmershack.com/articles/9903.cohen_j.sephardic.html
Sephardic music (tunes, articles, links): http://sephardiconnect.com/musicpage.htm
Research guide to Jewish music (Brandeis Music Ref): http://www.jmwc.org/jmwc_resmusic.html
Philip Bohlman: the Shechinah, or the Feminine sacred in the Musics of the Jewish Mediterranean: http://www.muspe.unibo.it/period/ma/index/number3/bohlman/bohl_0.htm
Daniel Barenboim - Playing Politics: http://www.scena.org/columns/lebrecht/031203-NL-Barenboim.html