This book contains the first study of the musical culture of ancient Israel/Palestine based primarily on the archaeological record. Noted musicologist Joachim Braun explores the music of the Holy Land region of the Middle East, tracing its form and development from its beginning in the Stone Age to the fourth century A.D. Synopsis An Israeli musicologist (retired, Bar-Ilan U.) provides a first- ever study of the musical culture of ancient Israel/Palestine based on the archeological record. Also drawing from other sources, Braun discusses the meaning and classification of musical instruments...
This book contains the first study of the musical culture of ancient Israel/Palestine based primarily on the archaeological record. Noted musicologist...
Der Freiwilligensurvey legt wissenschaftlich gesicherte Zahlen über die Bereitschaft zum freiwilligen Engagement in Deutschland vor. Diese erste bundesweite Studie, die in drei Bänden in 2. Auflage erscheint, stellt die notwendigen Diskussionen um eine Weiterentwicklung des freiwilligen Engagements und seiner politischen und gesellschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen auf eine gesicherte Grundlage. Das Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend, das diese Untersuchung in Auftrag gegeben hat, leistet damit einen Beitrag, der eine Lücke in der deutschen Sozialforschung schließt.
Der Freiwilligensurvey legt wissenschaftlich gesicherte Zahlen über die Bereitschaft zum freiwilligen Engagement in Deutschland vor. Diese erste bund...
On Jewish Music, partly a retrospective, is a collection of articles on the history of Jewish music and covers aspects of Jewish musical culture from the earliest days of musical activities in ancient Israel/Palestine through the centuries of the Diaspora to modern Israel. Especially stressed is the ethnic aspect of archaeological evidence from ancient Israel. Discussed are the place of iconography in renaissance Hebrew manuscripts, the art of klezmer music, musical life in the former Soviet Union, and the sociological aspects of musical life in modern Israel. The discussion is...
On Jewish Music, partly a retrospective, is a collection of articles on the history of Jewish music and covers aspects of Jewish musical cultur...
North-South Free Trade Agreements are supposed to improve African countries access to competitive inputs and consumer goods, to assist in creating an enabling trading environment and to help to improve the competitiveness of domestic companies by involving them in international networks. Negative effects such as revenue losses and trade diversion are meant to be offset by safeguard measures, technical assistance, and economic growth. The effects of a free trade agreement between the EU and the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) countries, especially relating to export performance,...
North-South Free Trade Agreements are supposed to improve African countries access to competitive inputs and consumer goods, to assist in creating an ...
This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. About three billion people reside in these degraded lands. However, the impact of land degradation is especially severe on livelihoods of the poor who heavily depend on natural resources. The annual global cost of land degradation due to land use and cover change (LUCC) and lower cropland and rangeland productivity is estimated to be about 300 billion USD. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)...
This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries...
