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My Path to Jewish Music
… occur among the Jews through their own folk and synagogal chants. Through their gradual transformation and artistic … achievements. In the study of ancient Jewish culture during biblical times, we frequently encounter references to music. … or a sword—but musical instruments, [4] in addition to the biblical tropes [Neginoth] that are used to this day for …
Edith Gerson-Kiwi in Tehran (1961): Documents from a Revealing Journey
… mainstream of ancient Jewish music as a center whose modal chant spread eastwards via Oriental Christian liturgies. Put … whom she recorded on April 26, 1948 singing excerpts of biblical cantillation as well as sections from the Passover … mainstream Sephardic cantorial tradition. His recordings of biblical cantillation were broadcast by the Palestine …
"Evolution of Jewish Music": Discourse Communities and Narrative Construction in the Performance of Music History
… to a performance of Matisyahu’s reggae retelling of the Biblical story of the exodus from Egypt in his song “Chop … Jeffrey. 2016. Singing God’s Words: The Performance of Biblical Chant in Contemporary Judaism. Oxford: Oxford University …
Ashkenazi Liturgy Studies
… Volume II, 1971: The Concept of Mode in European Synagogue Chant / Hanoch Avenary Yuval: Volume X, 2016: Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… Nigunim (Yiddish nign , from the Hebrew niggun —melody) are chants, some with words but most without, historically … was published by Zussman Kisselgof (1912, 6) as the Sabbath chant “Menucha ve-Simcha.” The earliest documentation of the … [In Ukrainian]. Malin, Yonatan. 2016. “Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis.” …
Shefa Gold
… to Judaism. Gold combined the old practice of Hebrew chanting with ideas from Buddhism by using biblical verses as Mantras in order to achieve a deeply … more than 10 albums. One of her famous melodies is for the biblical words Ozi V'zimrat Yah, (from psalms). The melody …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… set to the melody of the American song. The setting of this Biblical Hebrew verse to this song was documented in the … item (Zemereshet, #2774). It also became a Hebrew chant in the sports arena with the lyrics Hagavi’a hu …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… and Yiddish. Many of these texts touch directly upon the biblical story, while others refer to the traumatic memory … We have located in these sources thirteen transcriptions of chants for ʽ Akedah piyyutim recorded between 1840 and the … is a psalmodic chant to which verses from the biblical Book of Lamentations are sung during the Divine …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… its relationship to some features of the Ashkenazi Torah chant. Placing the three sub-types of the “common” Ashkenazi … the old-fashioned pentatonics with their reminiscences of Biblical chant. The “alternative” Eastern European melody of … on the High Holidays. The use of a prominent motif of Biblical chant as the final cadence of most Shofet versions …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, and other Biblical texts in liturgical contexts—has attracted the … since the day of the Renaissance Humanists. [1] The Hebrew chanting depends on the text, and is determined by the … melodies or “modes” in the Eastern Ashkenazi tradition of Biblical cantillation; I will characterize each mode with a …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… of Hatikvah . Alternatively, scholars have invocated the Biblical ‘Vision of the Dried Bones’ (Ezekiel 37, 11-12) as … Central and Eastern Europe. On the other hand, the “Biblical” thesis speaks more about a desire to ground the … like a folksong than an ecclesiastical [read: synagogue] chant, and hence it is inappropriate for liturgical use.” …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… number is given a symbolic meaning that is connected to Biblical figures, concepts, and objects related to Judaism: … of which may seem far removed from the original Passover chant. The following example [referring to the discussed … Rachel Clara. “Songs of the ‘Twelve Numbers’ and the Hebrew Chant of ‘Echod Mi Yodea’.” Journal of American Folklore 62, …


