Yonatan Malin

Festo! Festo! Community Jam coming next month (3/27/25)

Maggie Rosenau — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:47:11 +0000

Festo! Festo! Community Jam coming next month (3/27/25) Maggie Rosenau Tue, 02/25/2025 - 08:47

Festo! Festo! is a monthly Klezmer, Balkan, and World music concert and community jam session. This month’s Festo Festo will be held at The Velvet Elk Lounge in Boulder, CO. The evening will be full of talent from Colorado and around beyond!

Thursday March 27, 2025 - 07:00 PM

The Community Jam will be lead by the Boulder Klezmer Jam - a group of musicians that join together on a monthly basis to share and learn Klezmer tunes.

The Boulder Klezmer Jam was formed in part by Prof. Yonatan Malin.

For more information and tickets, go to: https://tickets.jccdenver.org/tickets/festo-festo-velvet-elk-lounge-boulder-co-307658?r=638754860946382486

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Yonatan Malin co-produces a website for Jewish Folk Music

Maggie Rosenau — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:48:51 +0000

Yonatan Malin co-produces a website for Jewish Folk Music Maggie Rosenau Wed, 01/29/2025 - 09:48

Prof. Yonatan Malin recently collaborated Daniel Shanahan (Northwestern University) to produce the website Modes in Klezmer Music: A Corpus Study Based on Beregovski’s Jewish Instrumental Folk Music. A companion article will be published next fall in Music Theory Online, a journal of the Society for Music Theory.

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Yonatan Malin presenting paper at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies

Maggie Rosenau — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 16:07:35 +0000

Yonatan Malin presenting paper at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies Maggie Rosenau Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:07

Prof. Yonatan Malin is presenting a paper at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies this week.

The title of his paper is “The Musical Tapestry of Klezmer: A Computational Approach to Beregovski’s Jewish Instrumental Folk Music.” The paper is part of a panel, “Digital Zamlers: The Oral Torah & Realizing An-sky’s Dream of Engaged Jewish Culture-Making.”

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Klezmer Institute Awarded NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant for Klezmer Archive Project

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 22:13:33 +0000

Klezmer Institute Awarded NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant for Klezmer Archive Project Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 02/18/2021 - 15:13

The Program in Jewish Studies congratulates Yonatan Malin, who is on a project team that’s been awarded a $50,000 NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant!

"The Klezmer Institute is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a Phase I Digital Humanities Access Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for 2021-2022. The Klezmer Archive project aims to create a universally accessible, useful resource for interaction, discovery, and research on all available information about klezmer music. The project will adapt and apply methodology from computational musicology and library sciences to create a tool to facilitate study of the klezmer corpus in a deeper, more systematic manner and on a more comprehensive scale than previously possible. This digital archive will be an important resource for Jewish music studies, and will also benefit researchers in the fields of corpus studies, computational musicology, and library sciences."

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Yonatan Malin presents talk on "Understanding Jewish Music"

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 17:54:10 +0000

Yonatan Malin presents talk on "Understanding Jewish Music" Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 01/11/2017 - 10:54

Yonatan Malin, Associate Professor of Music Theory and Jewish Studies, presented a talk on “Understanding Jewish Music” in the First Friday series at Congregation Bonai Shalom in Boulder, CO. He introduced elements that contribute to the power of Jewish music with examples from traditional nusach, a modern niggun, and a Moroccan piyut.

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Yonatan Malin publishes on Biblical Cantillation

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 22:38:25 +0000

Yonatan Malin publishes on Biblical Cantillation Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 08/24/2016 - 16:38

Yonatan Malin, Associate Professor of Music and Jewish Studies, published "Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis" in Yuval, the online journal of the Jewish Music Research Centre at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He presented research on relations between music analysis and ethnography at the University of Oregon in May and the Fourth International Conference on Analytical Approaches to World Music in June.

Professor Malin plans to offer a course on Music in Jewish Culture in the fall of 2017.

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Yonatan Malin Publishes Article on Jewish Cantillation

Anonymous — Fri, 20 May 2016 16:38:13 +0000

Yonatan Malin Publishes Article on Jewish Cantillation Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 05/20/2016 - 10:38

Yonatan Malin, Associate Professor of Music and Jewish Studies, published "Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis" in Yuval, the online journal of the Jewish Music Research Centre at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He will be presenting current research on relations between music analysis and ethnography at the University of Oregon (in May) and the Fourth International Conference on Analytical Approaches to World Music (in June).

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Yonatan Malin Talks about Ethnography and Analysis in Jewish Music Research

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 15:26:21 +0000

Yonatan Malin Talks about Ethnography and Analysis in Jewish Music Research Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 03/28/2016 - 09:26

Yonatan Malin, Associate Professor of Music Theory and Jewish Studies, spoke about his research on February 1 at a colloquium in the College of Music at 91��ý. Malin's talk, "Analytical Stories, Ethnography, and Cultural Values," focused on the stories that we tell with music analysis how these relate to cultural knowledge and dialogue in Jewish contexts. He will give the talk again in May at the University of Oregon and in June at the Fourth International Conference on Analytical Approaches to World Music.

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PJS Welcomes Professor Yonatan Malin to Our Faculty

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 16:14:57 +0000

PJS Welcomes Professor Yonatan Malin to Our Faculty Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 08/27/2015 - 10:14

The Program in Jewish Studies is excited to welcome Professor Yonatan Malin, Associate Professor of Music Theory, to the Program.

Yonatan Malin is Associate Professor in the College of Music. His research explores musical structure and meaning in a wide variety of genres including German Lieder, Klezmer, and Jewish liturgical music. His book Songs in Motion: Rhythm and Meter in the German Lied was published in 2010 by Oxford University Press. He has published articles in Music Analysis and Music Theory Spectrum, and a chapter in the edited volume Expressive Intersections in Brahms (2012). Professor Malin received a PhD from the University of Chicago, and he has presented papers at national meetings of the Society for Music Theory and the Society for Ethnomusicology, at the First International Conference on Analytical Approaches to World Music, and at the conference Magnified and Sanctified: The Music of Jewish Prayer. In the fall of 2013, he presented "Commentary on a Niggun" in the CU-Boulder Symposium "Embodied Judaism: The Sound of Ecstasy," honoring Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. Before joining the faculty at 91��ý, Malin was Associate Professor at Wesleyan University.

Professor Malin is drawn to Jewish Studies because of Jewish music. He says "I am interested in exploring the music from analytical and interpretive perspectives. The interpretation of linguistic texts is an essential part of Jewish culture and Jewish studies, but the interpretation of musical texts and recordings has not been developed in the same way. I have worked on the relationship between music and poetic texts in classical repertoires (i.e., nineteenth-century art songs), and now I am exploring similar issues in Jewish music. In terms of teaching, I like to expand students' conceptions of what Jewish music is and can be, and what it means to know music from the inside."

Over the summer of 2015, Professor Malin presented a paper titled "Music-Text Relations in Eastern Ashkenazic Cantillation: A New Analysis" at the conference Magnified and Sanctified: An International Academic Conference on the Music of Jewish Prayer. The conference took place in June at the University of Leeds, and it was presented jointly by the University of Leeds School of Music and the academic wing of the European Cantors Association. Malin shows how the motives of Jewish biblical chant create effects of musical parallelism and markedness—which may or may not correlate with analogous features in the text. The paper focuses on the first five verses of Genesis and a passage from Isaiah, chapter 40. Malin draws on his own experience, notated sources, and original recordings with lay and professional readers.

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