Walter Feldman

Biographic Data

ID	129373
NAME	Walter Feldman
GIVEN NAMES	Walter
FAMILY NAME	Feldman
SIGNATURE	FELDMAN W
AFFILIATIONS	Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative
ORCID	0000-0002-8609-8269
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	23
TOTAL CITATIONS	10
AUTHOR COUNT	23
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1984
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2022
H-INDEX	2

From Rumi to the Whirling Dervishes: Music, Poetry, and Mysticism in the Ottoman Empire
Walter FeldmanBOOKFrom Rumi to the Whirling Dervishes2022
The Emergence of Ottoman Music and Local Modernity
Walter FeldmanARTICLEYıllık: Annual of Istanbul studies2019Cited by: 1
By the turn of the eighteenth century this Ottoman musical ‘renaissance’ involved also musical theory and notation (with Osman Dede and Cantemir). A fuller development of the new conceptions of usul and melody emerged in the generation after Cantemir (with Zaharya, Haham Musi, et al.). This new music involved a synthesis of Persian, Turkic, and Byzantine elements. The entrance of non-Muslims—notably Greek cantors (psaltes)—into courtly compositio…
Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory
Walter Feldman, Walter Zev Feldman et al.BOOKKlezmer2016Cited by: 2
Klezmer' is a comprehensive study of the musical structure and social history of klezmer music - the music of Jewish musicians' guild of Eastern Europe. Author Walter Zev Feldman includes major written sources, as well as interviews with European-born klezmorim, conducted over a period of more than thirty years. Including musical analysis, Feldman draws upon the foundational collections of the late Tsarist and early Soviet periods, plus rare klez…
Remembrance of Things Past: Klezmer Musicians of Galicia, 1870–1940
Walter Feldman, Walter Zev FeldmanARTICLEPolin: Studies in Polish Jewry2003
Jewish Music
Edwin Seroussi, Joachim Von Braun et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Ottoman music
Walter Feldman, Walter Zev FeldmanCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Judeo-Spanish Songs from Eastern Mediterranean
Walter Feldman, Walter Zev Feldman et al.ARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music2000
Klezmer-Musik
Walter Feldman, Walter Zev Feldman et al.ARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music2000
Oytsres (Treasures): Klezmer Music 1908-1996
Walter Feldman, Walter Zev Feldman et al.ARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music2000
Music of the Ottoman Court: Makam, Composition and the Early Ottoman Instrumental Repertoire
Irene Markoff, Walter FeldmanARTICLEAsian Music2000
Music of the Ottoman Court: Makam, Composition and the Early Ottoman Instrumental Repertoire
Martin Stokes, Walter FeldmanARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music1999
The Celestial Sphere, the Wheel of Fortune, and Fate in the Gazels of Nâʾilî and Bâkî
Open AccessWalter FeldmanARTICLEInternational Journal Middle East…1996Cited by: 1References: 2
The poet known as Bâkî (d. 1600), the “King of Poets” of Sultan Suleiman I (1520–66), is generally acknowledged as the leading figure of the so-called “classical age” of Ottoman poetry (roughly from the mid-15th to the beginning of the 17th century), while the poet known as Nâʾilî (d. 1666) was a pivotal figure in the break between this classical age and the “post-classical age,” roughly the early modern era extending from 1600 to 1800. On the br…
Rubin & Horowitz: Bessarabian Symphony. Early Jewish Instrumental Music
Walter Feldman, Walter Z Feldman et al.ARTICLEEthnomusicology1996
Demetrius Cantemir, the Collection of Notations. Part I: Text
Walter Feldman, Owen WrightARTICLEEthnomusicology1995
Judische Lebenswelten: Patterns of Jewish Life. Highlights from the Concert Series "Traditional and Popular Jewish Music," Berlin 1992
Walter FeldmanARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music1995
New Recordings of Turkish Classical Music
Open AccessWalter FeldmanARTICLEMiddle East Studies Association…1994
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Bulgareasca/Bulgarish/Bulgar: The Transformation of a Klezmer Dance Genre
Walter Feldman, Walter Z FeldmanARTICLEEthnomusicology1994Cited by: 2
Musique et extase: L'Audition mystique dans la tradition soufie
Walter Feldman, Jean DuringARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1993
International audience
Ottoman Sources on the Development of the Taksim
Walter FeldmanARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music1993Cited by: 2
The taksim (Arabic taqsim) is often referred to in the musicological literature of the Middle East as an instrumental “improvisation” (Nettl 1973: 11).2 The taksim has been known as a major musical genre during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in most of the countries of the Middle East which had been incorporated within the Ottoman Empire, especially Turkey, Syria/Palestine and Egypt. It is also significant in Tunisia, but less so in the r…
Turkmenistan: La musique des bakhshy
Walter Feldman, Slawomira Zeranska-KominekARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music1992
Cultural Authority and Authenticity in the Turkish Repertoire
Walter FeldmanARTICLEAsian Music1990Cited by: 2
Klezmer Music: Early Yiddish Instrumental Music. The First Recordings: 1910-1927, from the Collection of Dr. Martin Schwartz
Walter Feldman, Martin Schwartz et al.ARTICLEEthnomusicology1987
Orient/Okzident: Musik aus Sudost-Europa
Walter Feldman, W DietrichARTICLEEthnomusicology1984

Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory
Walter Feldman, Walter Zev Feldman et al.BOOKKlezmer2016Cited by: 2
Klezmer' is a comprehensive study of the musical structure and social history of klezmer music - the music of Jewish musicians' guild of Eastern Europe. Author Walter Zev Feldman includes major written sources, as well as interviews with European-born klezmorim, conducted over a period of more than thirty years. Including musical analysis, Feldman draws upon the foundational collections of the late Tsarist and early Soviet periods, plus rare klez…
Bulgareasca/Bulgarish/Bulgar: The Transformation of a Klezmer Dance Genre
Walter Feldman, Walter Z FeldmanARTICLEEthnomusicology1994Cited by: 2
Ottoman Sources on the Development of the Taksim
Walter FeldmanARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music1993Cited by: 2
The taksim (Arabic taqsim) is often referred to in the musicological literature of the Middle East as an instrumental “improvisation” (Nettl 1973: 11).2 The taksim has been known as a major musical genre during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in most of the countries of the Middle East which had been incorporated within the Ottoman Empire, especially Turkey, Syria/Palestine and Egypt. It is also significant in Tunisia, but less so in the r…
Cultural Authority and Authenticity in the Turkish Repertoire
Walter FeldmanARTICLEAsian Music1990Cited by: 2
The Emergence of Ottoman Music and Local Modernity
Walter FeldmanARTICLEYıllık: Annual of Istanbul studies2019Cited by: 1
By the turn of the eighteenth century this Ottoman musical ‘renaissance’ involved also musical theory and notation (with Osman Dede and Cantemir). A fuller development of the new conceptions of usul and melody emerged in the generation after Cantemir (with Zaharya, Haham Musi, et al.). This new music involved a synthesis of Persian, Turkic, and Byzantine elements. The entrance of non-Muslims—notably Greek cantors (psaltes)—into courtly compositio…
The Celestial Sphere, the Wheel of Fortune, and Fate in the Gazels of Nâʾilî and Bâkî
Open AccessWalter FeldmanARTICLEInternational Journal Middle East…1996Cited by: 1References: 2
The poet known as Bâkî (d. 1600), the “King of Poets” of Sultan Suleiman I (1520–66), is generally acknowledged as the leading figure of the so-called “classical age” of Ottoman poetry (roughly from the mid-15th to the beginning of the 17th century), while the poet known as Nâʾilî (d. 1666) was a pivotal figure in the break between this classical age and the “post-classical age,” roughly the early modern era extending from 1600 to 1800. On the br…