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Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… performance context of nigunim was not weddings, but rather singing on Sabbaths, when playing instruments was forbidden. … the twentieth century, the nigunim that Yosl created were communally considered of the highest quality; they thus … nigunim in order to engage the audience in collective singing (Vinaver 1985, 147; Frigyesi 2008, 1222–1225). The …
"Ayumah be-har hamor" (The Beloved on the mountain of myrrh)
… over a period of generations. The hallmark of personal and communal traditions, which are determined by the singer's … without the two final verses of stanzas 3 and 5. The singing is responsorial: Aharon Amram sings the opening and … joins in before the previous performer has finished singing, and as a result they sing together for a short …
Sarah Harat
… of a Yemenite Blacksmith” ( The Yemenites: History, Communal Organization, Spiritual Life , ed. Menahem … songs for other joyous occasions and laments. She began singing at traditional henna events for Yemeni Jewish women … … Henna … Hina … 23812 … Yemen … Diwan … yemenite singing … Hina … Henna … Yemenite … Sarah Harat … Adiel Ben …
Abraham Beniso
… Road Spanish and Portuguese synagogues. He studied singing at the London College of Music and later accepted to … to conduct regular services, ceremonies, and serving the communal needs of the Jewish community in Gibraltar. His son …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… of a lover who looks above to the moon and the evening sky, singing of the pains of unrequited love. From online blogs … a heritage that is highly personal and familial as well as communal, preserving the sounds of the Iraqi Jewish …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… be remembered for her extraordinary memory and her pleasant singing voice, which can be heard throughout the vast … this repertoire remained part of the fabric of familial and communal life, transmitted to younger generations through …
Moshe Attias
… the music industry. Mwijo began his music career in Israel singing and playing the mandolin, an instrument associated … with Arabic vocabulary and grammatical formations. By singing in a specific style of Moroccan Arabic Mwijo in fact … In this Hebrew song (as usual, mixed with many “intra-communal” expressions in Moroccan Arabic), titled “Blessed …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… for the plot on which the Talmud Torah, the main Jewish communal school, had stood before the fire. Today, the … one, Saltiel does not repeat the B figure, instead singing an AB structure. Your browser does not support the … element. Below is a commercial recording of Saltiel singing “El Incendio de Salonika,” from 1998. Here he sings …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… time (see for example our Song of the Month archive). The singing of serial folksongs added at the end of the seder is … tunes without clear beat and meter are not conducive to communal singing. The other two approaches relate to … th century Zionist culture adopted the seder as a seminal communal event providing both a sense of continuity and a …
Avi Bar-Eitan
… interests span musicology and ethnomusicology and include communal singing ( shirah b’tzibbur ) in Israel today and its role in creating communal and individual identities; the concept of steyger …