Music of Israel

✔The Middle east or West Asia sits where

Africa, Asia, and Europe meet.
✔The countries of Middle East are all part
of Asia.

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 Israel
✔Parliamentary republic in the Middle
East, along the eastern shore of the
Mediterranean Sea.
✔Only country in the world where life
revolves around the Hebrew calendar.
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Zionist

✔Committed to the ideal of creating a

nation state for Jews from all over the
world.

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Shirei eretz Israel

✔Main aim was the revival of Hebrew

came the creation of body of literature
and a folk-song repertoire sung in
Hebrew.
✔Song of the Land of Israel
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Characteristics of
Israeli Music

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 Characteristics of Israeli Music
✔Use of duple and compound meters
✔Often in minor keys
✔Songs occasionally show Arabic influence
✔Use of modes outside the major/minor scale

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✔ Arrangements are acoustic and the accompaniment is
simple, based on piano, guitar, and accordion
✔ The lyrics often dealt with national themes and life in the
holy land.
■ Life, loves, and ideals of youths, and texts from the
Bible
✔Has distinctive musical style, drawing on European
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Musical forms found in Israeli music
include:

✔ Klezmer – Israeli folk music with lyrics translated from

the Yiddish or New Hebrew words.
✔ Muzika Mizrahit – combination of eastern and western
elements.
✔ Jewish Yemenite music – music of ancient Hebrew
usually performed in a window-lined room at the top of
the house.
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✔Kinnor

✔Erev shel shoshanim

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