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Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… focusing on changes introduced to the text and the music within different historical contexts and local Jewish … structure of questions and answers and its numbers are nearly identical to those in “E h ad mi yodea,” with some of … version has become a popular song among Yiddish and klezmer musicians over the past few decades. Performers and adapters …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… th centuries and developed under Turkish-Ottoman and Arabic musical influences. Contents The tradition of … piyyutim The baqqashot singing tradition Piyyutim for the yearly cycle and life-cycle Summary Bibliography The … 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 … begins with the introductory “khapt im, nempt im” line. The music to this opening section is more dense than in the rest … points out the connection between the song's theme and the musicality of the melody. In his view, the altered Dorian …
The Early Attempts at Creating a Theory of Ashkenazi Liturgical Music
… … 2 … Jüdische Musik als Dialog der Kulturen (Jewish Music as a Dialogue of Cultures) … Jüdische Musik als Dialog der Kulturen (Jewish Music as a Dialogue of Cultures) … 33934 … 59–69 … … liturgy … Ashkenazi … Boaz Tarsi … Jascha Nemtsov … The Early Attempts at Creating a Theory of Ashkenazi Liturgical …
Karev Yom
… The interview was held at the initiative of the Israeli music connoisseur and collector Dudi Patimer. 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 … is that Hatikvah (“The Hope”) is a perfect example of the early Zionist movement’s creative drive and haphazard, … legislative design. Because of the “folk” origins of its music and the re-writing of Naftali Herz Imber’s poem …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… 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 … arrived in Palestine and was translated into Hebrew as early as 1900. Later on, in the early 1920s, Kadish Yehuda …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… 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. … important to record the melodies associated with the early stages of the rebuilding of our homeland, so that we, …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… and below each word. However, the chant also has clear musical features, with a variety of scales, motives, … 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. …
Assaf Shelleg
… Musicologist and pianist Assaf Shelleg is senior lecturer of musicology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was … Jewish art music in Central and Western Europe in the early twentieth century and its partial dislocation to …