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Max Lempel
… His outdoor concerts in Tel Aviv during 1927-1929 were remarkable events for their time. He was also active in the …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… , Jerusalem 1978, Hilkhot seder Pessah , fol. 15a). This remark by the most authoritative source on the Ashkenazi … role, creating the musical peak of the whole piece. C (1) marks the ending cadence and F (4) serves as the preparation …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… AL: The University of Alabama Press, 2006), 173-208; Mark Kligman, “Contemporary Jewish Music in America,” …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… And grant them life, our King and Lord. Let Thou the mark of life appear Upon their brow from year to year, As … (against the Thirteen Attributes of God), then open the Ark and say the pizmon ‘Shofet kol ha’aretz’ and one should not close the Ark after ending Shofet…” In the same prayer book of 1826, …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… word ta’am (plural te’amim ) refers to a Biblical accent mark, but it also means “flavor,” “taste,” and “sense,” or … but the focal pitches and collections within the scale are markedly different. Torah cantillation may be heard as … in comparison, festive megillot trope may be heard as marked and special. The focus on the musical aspect of …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… attribution for the text. In many ways, this song is unremarkable. It stays firmly within a normative minor key and … remains an argument from silence, but it is nonetheless remarkable. [10] I have most frequently heard it used as a …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… has an author, the Vilna-born Yiddish poet Mordekhai (Mark) Rivesman (1868-1924, left) and is attributed to a …
Vivat
… “Vivat [also vivad]. long live! hurrah! yikhi!” Harkavi 1928, p. 205 . “In the first [of four] week[s] …
Or Haganuz
… by the Ron Shulamit Conservatory in Jerusalem, and marks the 50th anniversary of the JMRC. It is the best gift …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… beautiful, [11] while in the villages the women's skin was darker, a feature considered to be sign of beauty in turn. … this theme as well; the urban woman symbolizes the stark reality to which the man finds himself, while the rural …