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Moshe Attias
… 30, 2020. He came, as do many Moroccan Jewish performing artists and composers, from a family of musicians going back … that as a token of gratitude, Ben Haroush left him his songbooks, which had also been handed down to him. The … from his earlier years when he could only remember parts of songs – that Mwijo maintained the honorific title of …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… Studying songs for Passover offers us a rich field of inquiry into … Gila Flam from the National Library of Israel; Dr. Alex Hartov from the Dartmouth College Archive of Jewish Sound; Dr. Michael Lukin …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… 2000, 218–222; Guez-Avigal 2009, 159–166; Kartun-Blum 2013). Likewise, the Binding of Isaac has constituted a common motif in works of art among Jews throughout the ages (Sabar 2009, 9–27). In … of the Binding of Isaac and was also used for additional songs in Hebrew and Yiddish, the content of which relates to …

The Music of Kurdistan Jews - a Synopsis of their Musical Styles
… continuity of national schools of thought in sciences or arts. Its more recent political history has demonstrated the … that many aspects of their expression in speaking as in song preserve some remnants of an early pre-Christian style; …

Musical Tradition and its Transmitters between Synagogue and Church
… with two tasks: (1) to examine the concept of 'national folksong' and its applicability in the instance of the musical … whose ideas may be 'in the air' of a period forming part of the Zeitgeist and its forces, the melodies, rhythms … not 'in the air;' if anything, they are perhaps 'in the earth,' but that is another matter. They constitute part of …

An Institute of Jewish Music in Jerusalem
… music that are dispersed through all the corners of the earth! Who amongst you senses the sanctity of his people's … to hear in the singing of the Jews today the echo of the song of Moses the Man of God, the psalms of David the King …

Persistence and Transformation of a Sephardi - Penitential Hymn under Changing Environmental Conditions
… number of variants of a folk melody was undertaken by Bela Bartok at the beginning of the century, and continued by his … from sixty divergent versions of the same song. … 9433 … Sephardi … Sephardic Jewish people … …

Numerical Representation of Variants of Orally Transmitted Tunes
… identifying and relating the variants of a model-tune is particularly important, when we compare two or more melodies … … Variant … Melodies … Melodic variants … Folk music … Folk songs … Folk tunes … Folklore … Oral tradition … Numerical …

Yemenite Qasīd Songs (Hebrew)
… other types in content and in language. The poems are folk songs, light, entertaining, and amusing in content. They are … content and music. The qasid were sung at the end of parties, once the serious part of the affair was over and the Rabbis and honoured …

Towards a Typology of the Judeo-Spanish Folksong: Gerineldo and the Romance Model
… which seeks to define the Judeo-Spanish folksong as represented in its geographical distribution, by … which reflect the multidimensional character of the folksong. A definition will be obtained, therefore, when the … Alexander-Frizer … Isaac Benabu … Yaacov Ghelman … Ora Schwartwald …