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The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… piyyutim The baqqashot singing tradition Piyyutim for the yearly cycle and life-cycle Summary Bibliography The … Turkey, the Balkan countries, Syria, Lebanon, the Land of Israel, and Egypt. H azzanim (cantors) and payytanim passed … musical system that shaped the Shabbat and holiday prayers. Early evidence for this phenomenon is found in the …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… the stolen objects listed in this second version are nearly identical to those in the first version. On the other … is very similar to the one in Beregovski's collection. The Israeli klezmer band ‘Oy Division’ also recorded this song …
Karev Yom
… life of those times… Theodore Bikel On October 2, 2014, Israeli anchor Gabi Gazit interviewed Theodore Bikel … Speaking live from Los Angeles to Tel Aviv, Bikel was nearly offended when Gazit asked him if the interview should … the end of the interview, when asked if he remembers his early days in Tel Aviv, Bikel responded simply with the …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… not derive from Smetana nor from a Sephardic prayer. And an early Zionist pioneer did not compose it spontaneously. Nor did it become the national anthem of the State of Israel until very recently. The truth is that Hatikvah (“The Hope”) is a perfect example of the early Zionist movement’s creative drive and haphazard, …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… and transferred to the Sound Archive, National Library of Israel, ZP 00024 (078), no. 4. … 'Haynt iz Purim,' Daniel … borrowed for this play, as was the standard practice in the early Yiddish theater. ‘Flaker, Feirel, Flaker’ crossed the … at the beginning of this article. Goldfarb’s version is clearly taken from the zamelbukh , except that it is …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… l/sites/default/files/attachments/Idelsohn%20-%20Am%27cha%20Yisrael.jpg … In 1926, in “New Palestinean [sic] Folk Songs” … sections. The text draws from poetic formulae common in early Zionist Hebrew poetry. In Zionist songbooks and … cantillation, he was also one of the most important early collectors and arrangers of Zionist music in America. …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… mishpati ya-avor” (Why do you say, Jacob / Why declare, Israel // My way is hid from the Lord / And by my God my … in Esther trope; the two pitch centers are not as clearly established and the switch is not as stark. Example 9 … into the new key. The etnaḥta phrase in Example 9 moves clearly into D minor. …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… the Sephardic liturgy and appears also, since at least the early eighteenth century, in the Yemenite rite during the … Manuscripts (hereby: IMHM) at the National Library of Israel, we can reconstruct with a certain degree of accuracy … Tyrnau, an Austrian rabbi active in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries in Vienna and its vicinities who …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… more accessible, communal modes of prayer. Friedman’s early compositions were designed to be accompanied by simple … for You listen with compassion to the prayer of Your people Israel. Blessed are You, Lord, who listens to prayer. [2] … this harmonic progression appears in popular music of the early 1990s as a signifier of hope and optimism. Moreover, …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… New Findings about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research … (New York: Bloch Pub. Co, 1925). In Europe during the early 20 th century, we should mention the presence of this … Ashkenazi tunes Not all Ashkenazi homes, at least by the early 20 th century, followed the traditional “gemara …