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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 …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… phrase in the cantillation of the Book of Lamentations, the biblical book recited during the Ninth of Av. Your browser … in the third volume of Naumbourg’s Z’miroth Israel , Chants Religieux d es Israëlites : Contenant l es Hymnes, l …
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 …
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 …
Yom Hashishi
… in this rendition is similar to the scriptural reading of Biblical texts. The introductory verses (Genesis 2: 1-3) are chanted in a psalmodic manner in minor. At the benediction …
Isaac Levy
… worked as a composer and as a cantor. He composed music for Biblical verses and piyyutim written by poets of the golden …
Im tashiv (Qiddush shel Shabbat)
… qiddush ) of the Sabbath Day over the wine, a selection of Biblical verses, is sung prior to the main meal during the Sabbath day. Its first section (Isaiah 58:13-14) is chanted according to the melody of the Haftarah , the additional Biblical readings (from the books of the Prophets) of the …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… However, the reshut was not always a creation of post-biblical poets. Liturgists also used selections of Psalm … The result of this initiative was the compendium titled Chants hebraïques suivant le rite des communautes Israelites … elements of original Jewish modes intermingled with French chants of the Middle Ages. Peculiarly enough, these Jews …