Publications by A.U.Boskovich

In addition to the items listed below, Boskovich also published articles and concert reviews in the Israeli daily Haaretz (1956-1964), most of which are available at the Boskovich Archive at the National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, as well as the archives of  Haaretz.

Boskovich published and edited, with Herzl Shmueli, a Hebrew translation of Paul Hindemith’s A Concentrated Course in Traditional Harmony: With emphasis in exercises and a minimum of rules; they the prepared an unpublished translation of Hindemith’s Exercises in Two-Part Writing (the second volume of this treatise The Craft of Musical Composition).

– Full article avilable

“The Questions of Jewish Music” (in Hungarian). Originally published by a Jewish student association in Cluj (1937). A Hebrew translation by Uri Assaf is included in Hirshberg & Shmueli, Alexander Uriyah Boskovich, pp.245-250. (HE, HU)

“An Introduction written by Boskovich to a book of songs by Nissim Nissimov (member of Kibbutz Ma’abarot) August 1944 (HE)

Concerto de Camera – By A. U. Boskovich (EN)

Boskovich writes story about his life (EN)

A. U. Boskovich – Statements from his article in “Orlogin” 9, P. 1/290, 1951-1953

Organizational Science in Scotland, 16.11.1951 (HE)

Organizing Art Celebrations – How? 7.12.1951 (HE)

“The Problems of Music – and Original Music in Israel, Part 1: Problems of Music”, Orlogin 3 (July 1951), pp.177-187; “The Problems of Original Music in Israel”, Orlogin 9 (November 1953), pp.280-294. Selections from this two-part essay are included in Hirshberg & Shmueli, Alexander Uriyah Boskovich, pp. 193-210. (HE)

“Traditional Harmony” – Translated by A.U. Boskovich 1950 (HE)

“Israeli Music for Piano”. Bat kol 2 (1956), pp.9-11. Reprinted in Hirshberg & Shmueli, Alexander Uriyah Boskovich, pp.239-244. (HE)

Back to the only, historic visit of the great pianist, Glenn Gold in Israel, 1958 (HE)

London Symphony Orchestra, 16.2.1960

“On Menachem Avidom’s opera Alexandra“. Bat Kol 3 (1961), pp.7-9. (HE)

“From A. A. Boskovich’s Musical and Literary Legacy”. Two articles – “The Ten-Year-Old State and Its Music” (1958); “Psalm 23 -The Lord is My Shepherd for Voice and Orchestra“ – introduced by B.B [Benjamin Bar-Am?]. Iyunim Be-Muzika (Journal of the Israel Composer’s League), issues 8-9 (March 1975), pp. 12-15. (HE)

“Introduction to an evening of his music”. Dukhan: Periodical of Jewish-Religious Music 5 (Hanukkah 1963), pp.103-108. (HE)

“La musique Israélienne contemporaine et les traditions éthniques”. Journal of the international Folkmusic Council, vol. XVI (1964), pp. 39-42. Published in collaboration with the East and West Conference (Jerusalem, 1963), organized with the assistance of the International Music Council, under the auspices of UNESCO. (FR, HE)

Last night at the Concert – Subscriber concert No.10 at  the Philharmonic Orchestra (HE)

Folk Music as a creative element in modern music (FR)

Correct pronunciation – Hebrew in Latin letters

Contemporary Israeli music and ethnic tradition

About the works: “The Golden Chain”, “Semitic Suite” and “Concerto for Violin” (HE)

Using Latin letters

Unpublished articles and MS

The Problems of Original Music in Israel, Parts I and II of an unpublished book (mid-1950s). MS available at the Israel National Library. Selections from this book are included in Hirshberg & Shmueli’s Alexander Uriyah Boskovich, pp.211-238.

Adjustment of Folk Music to Art Music. Unfinished manuscript; MS/NL.

“A Palesztinai zenéröl“. Article on music in Palestine (in Hungarian). MS/NL (typed transcript),

Semitic Suite – Introduction

The Composer’s Words