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Dos Fartribene Taybele (The Exiled Dove)

… Land of Israel to work as a farmer. Goldfaden had some difficulty staging his new drama, until Boris Thomashevsky agreed …

Shofet Kol Ha'aretz

… against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon comprises … and had embraced the music aesthetics of the surrounding culture. The balanced course of Southern melody, with its …

Tenu'a (yd. pronunciation: tnue, tnie)

… fragment, or snippet, with characteristics that are difficult to define by known musical terms. Generally, but not …

Diwan

… In Arab culture, a Diwan is an anthology of poems by one or several …

Minhah

… pressure from the daily toils of their lives, it was difficult for them to make it to the synagogue for both Min h a …

Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)

… his piyyutim to be sung are borrowed from the musical culture of the Sephardi Jews of Spain (tunes of … or Arabic maqamat and melodies of the surrounding musical cultures became embedded in the Sephardi liturgical and … Baqqashot is the result of developments in the musical culture of the Middle East in general, and in Jerusalem in …