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Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… for You listen with compassion to the prayer of Your people Israel. Blessed are You, Lord, who listens to prayer. … text. A number of melodies for 'Shema' Koleinu' written by Ashkenazi composers in the twentieth century are in the … route and set the melody in the major scale. In Ashkenazi cantorial music, the major scale and its …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… 1. Bavaria/Frankfurt-Main 2. Venizia/Gorizia 3. Province Ashkenazi/Sephardi Ashkenazi/Sephardi Ashkenazi/Sephardi 3 Ashkenazi/Sephardi 4 … at thy judgment seat, With life and favor bless again Thy people prostrate at thy feet. And mayest Thou our morning …

Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Russia, Ukraine and Poland and is now widely practiced in Ashkenazi congregations around the world. There are six sets of melodies or “modes” in the Eastern Ashkenazi tradition of Biblical cantillation; I will … notated and/or recorded versions derive authority from the people who produce them, from the lineage of teachers and …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… transliterated in Latin letters in an inconsistent mix of Ashkenazic and Sephardic pronunciations. None of the songs … manner, easily accessible to all musically literate people regardless of Hebrew knowledge. Song number 4 in this … to the prayer sung (or more precisely, melodeclamated) by Ashkenazic women at the end of Shabbat known as “Got fun …

On musical connections between Jews and the neighboring peoples of Eastern and Western Europe
… Gol'din … Jewish folk music in Europe … Klezmer music … Ashkenazi … Max Goldin … Robert A. Rothstein … On musical connections between Jews and the neighboring peoples of Eastern and Western Europe …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… not yet lost, The hope of two thousand years, To be a free people in our land, The land of Zion and Jerusalem. Title … another Jewish melody, the Leoni Yigdal , see below under Ashkenazi hypothesis) with the Italian predecessors (see … borrowed from the surrounding non-Jewish society. [29] Ashkenazi Hypothesis Also Ashkenazi melodies competed in the …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… a manuscript addition (Hebrew and Yiddish) to a copy of the Ashkenazi haggadah printed in Prague in 1526/7 found at the … . After it was printed it became a fixed component of the Ashkenazi seder . In the first publications, the text of “E … to Sharvit 1972a (In Hebrew) Rubin, Ruth. Voices of a People: The Story of Yiddish Folksong . Philadelphia: Jewish …

Sirba
… throughout the east Carpathian region among co-territorial peoples including Jews, Ukrainians, Transylvanian … right, kick to the left. This dance pattern was alien to Ashkenazic dance, which preferred symmetrical …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… the Song of the Month to a very popular Eastern European Ashkenazi melody that, in the early 1920s, was set by the … h ” prayer at the end of the Sabbath morning services in Ashkenazi synagogues, mainly outside of Israel, and some …

Sher
… folk dance, done by four or eight couples, mostly young people. The folk translate the name of this dance as … not only to [modern couple dances such as] the polka did people improvise and sing songs, but also to the polonaise, … in many Jewish communities and especially in Jewish Ashkenazi communities, Poland, Italy and Turkey, an issue …