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Adon Olam
… eternity and unity of God. The date of composition and author of this hymn are unknown, though some attribute it to …
Akdamut millin
… lines which spell out a double alphabet as well as the author’s name, Rabbi Meir Issac Nehroai. This poem is only …
Eli Ziyyon
… the Middle Ages, but the exact date of composition and author are unknown. The elegy consists of twelve stanzas, …
Lekha Dodi
… consists of nine acrostic stanzas which spell the name of author Solomon ha-Levi, a kabbalist living in Tzfat in the …
Diwan
… Diwan meant exclusively a collection of poems by a single author. Today however, the term refers to an anthology of poems by a number of authors. The Diwan of the Jews of Yemen is a paraliturgical … century onward by the addition of poems by Yemenite authors, and at this stage it began to be copied and bound …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… in use in the court music of the Ottoman Empire during the author’s lifetime. Moreover, the lehanim (plural of lahan, … (16th and 17th centuries); and piyyutim of later local authors (from the 18th to the 20th centuries), including … rabbinical figures from Aleppo. The identity of some of the authors is unknown. In alphabetical order, the known authors …
Viktor Ullmann. A brief biography and appreciation
… Oct. 1944 Ullmann was sent to his death in Auschwitz. The author discusses, on the basis of his writings, Ullmann's … personal experiences as a pupil of Ullmann's from 1933-38. (Author, abridged) … 2 … 3 … …
The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Late Manifestation of the Musical Trope
… analyzed in the article through 8 different versions. The author describes the structure of the fantasia as a musical …
Musical Life and Traditions of the Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam in the XVIIIth Century
… 144p. Revised and enlarged version of part 4 of the author's "la pratique musicale savante dans quelques …
Buquieto de Romances y Coplas
… songs. Field work, transcription and annotation bu the author. Hebrew translation by Avner Perez. Hebrew title: זר …