Classical and Popular Music in Israel

MALCOLM MILLER is Honorary Associate and Associate Lecturer in Music at The Open University, UK, and Editor of Arietta, journal of the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe MALCOLM MILLER is Honorary Associate and Associate Lecturer in Music at The Open University, UK, and Editor of Arietta, journal of the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe ARNOLD WHITTALL is Professor Emeritus of Music Theory & Analysis, King's College London and one of the leading authorities on twentieth-century music and analysis.

• Introduction: Classical and Popular Music in Israel: Transcultural Dialogues and ContrastsMalcolm Miller Part 1: Music in Israel: An Overview1 Israeli Music in Performance: A Contemporary Chronicle Michael Wolpe Part 2: East-West and Modernist Aesthetic Encounters2 How East is East? European Orientalism, Ethnicity, and Arabic Elements in Israeli Art MusicJehoash Hirshberg3 Music as a Symbol of Identity: Interrelation between Western and Eastern Art Musics in IsraelAmnon Shiloah4 Keeping One's Distance: Arnold Schoenberg and Israel, Then and NowArnold Whittall Part 3: Composers, Canons, and Repertories5 Transcultural Aesthetics and Musical Dialogues: Middle-Eastern and European Instruments in Works by Composers in Israel Malcolm Miller6 Josef Tal's Double Concerto for Violin and Cello with Chamber OrchestraYosef Goldenberg7 Between Belonging, Alienation, and Exclusion: Verdina Shlonsky and the Israeli Musical CanonIrit Youngerman8 The Holocaust as Reflected in Israeli Instrumental Art MusicGalia Duchin-Arieli9 Tikkun Ḥatzot: Earthly and Heavenly Visions in Mordecai Seter's 1961 Oratorio Uri Golomb10 Recalling Imaginary Worlds: Jewish Soundscapes in Mark Kopytman's WorksYulia Kreinin11 Tu Bishvat in the Shadow of Memory and Bereavement: Mark Kopytman's October Sun and Haim Permont's Dear Son of MineAnat Rubinstein Part 4: Popular Genres: Cabaret, Folk, Rock, and Soundscapes12 "A Broom That Will Sweep Everything Away": Types of Cabarets in the Jewish Community of Mandatory PalestineNaama Ramot13 "At Adama": A Musical VignetteCarmel Raz14 Israeli and British Early "Progressive Rock": A Comparative StudyAlon Schab15 When the Cannons Roar, Are the Muses Silent? The Israeli Soundscape since October 7, 2023Tanya Sermer Part 5: Composers' Perspectives16 Yehezkel Braun's Piano Sonata no.1 (1957): Compositional Reflections and RecollectionsRotem Luz17 Instrumental Arab Art Music in Israel: The Development of a Local Style?Emad Dalal 18 Composing in Time of War: The Genesis of a New Album of Art SongsOded Zehavi19 The Bible in Contemporary Israeli Music: A Personal Odyssey Max SternAfterword: The Israeli Fusion of Western, Arab, Hebrew, and Jewish Cultures: Rich, Shifting, Problematic, HopefulRonit SeterList of ContributorsIndex

This new and important volume transports the reader to the very confluence of music and culture in modern Israel. Each chapter sounds the diversity of a nation seeking to remember its past, to encounter self and other in the conflicts inescapable in its present, and to aspire to new musical possibilities for transcultural dialogue that will shape its future.