Atara Isaacson

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Head of Department at Bar Ilan University

This book is intended for music lovers, educators and researchers, listeners, poets and writers and anyone who has a word and a sound in his heart. The book examines the relationship between the text and the music of songs composed in the 19th century. How the composers Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf and Mahler treated the texts of poets of the t...

This mixed-methods study focused on cross-modal change in perception of paintings, by coupling them with related musical pieces. 120 participants were assessed using an online form, distributed via social media. They were asked to choose one of three realistic or abstract paintings, evaluate their perceptual characteristics on five semantic differe...

This book deals with two important issues in the education system today: one, communication between teacher and student, classroom management and proposing solutions to disciplinary problems. The second, is changing and updating the existing teaching methods to relevant approaches for the 21st century that incorporate creative thinking. This book t...

This book introduces the stories of two parallel worlds. One is not religious and the other is religious. The big surprise is that they are close to such an extent, they almost become unified. These stories are written in a dialogue correspondence between musicologist & education researcher and a philosopher that met at Bar Ilan University. They ar...

This book describes the fascinating multisensory meeting between voice of an instrument and the orchestra in the piano concerti of Schumann, Liszt and Brahms. The instrumental "song" designs and defines the structure of these pieces and gives a new point of view of the concerti. The book also describes the composers’ worlds including excerpts from...

15 Israeli Songs for students & teachers in elementary & junior high with interdisciplinary activities, text scores and music

p>This article presents an episode that occurred during a semester-long academic course called: Conduct Problems and Class Navigation. It focuses on investigating the behavior of a student who, because of her uniqueness, was an interesting candidate for an intrinsic case study. This paper presents a distinctive way of handling an interfering and di...

This essay offers a detailed account of Bellini’s Norma, focusing specifically on the title character. It describes the different facets of Norma: a priestess leader, a daughter, a mother, a friend and a woman scorned by her lover. It discusses the irony in Norma's status, showing that in each of the five facets that constitute her personality ther...

This essay offers a detailed account of Bellini’s Norma, focusing specifically on the title character. It describes the different facets of Norma: a priestess leader, a daughter, a mother, a friend and a woman scorned by her lover. It discusses the irony in Norma's status, showing that in each of the five facets that constitute her personality ther...

This article presents the results of a qualitative study which tried to determine the characteristics of the ideal teacher in Israeli schools today. There are essential traits that affect the teacher’s stance in the classroom and the teacher-student relationship. The findings are presented in the form of Ten Commandments which specify how to conduc...