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The Liturgy of Beta Israel: Music of the Ethiopian Jewish Prayer
… flown from the Sudan to Israel between November 1984 and early January 1985. In the wake of this operation, the … Machon Meir, to familiarize them with general Jewish history and Orthodox religious law ( Halacha ) that … until the mid-1980s. You can also find this album on Apple Music , or download MP3s on Amazon . … 42 … 42 … 7 … 38842 …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… the death camps. Jewish Saloniki: A Brief Survey The Jewish history in Saloniki is essentially comprised of a few … with them as they migrated, including literary traditions, musical forms and the Judeo-Spanish language, Ladino. The … on historical events and Jewish festivities of the yearly cycle. Susana Weich-Shahak defines the copla as a poem …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… role in dramatically shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. … more accessible, communal modes of prayer. Friedman’s early compositions were designed to be accompanied by simple … The Lion King (1994). These films were milestones in the history of popular music in feature animated films. Alan …
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 … of the opening stanza, is the refrain (the same words and music are repeated) and x, the last line of the rest of the … , 1906, vol. 11, p. 306. Edwin Seroussi. “Toward a history of Jewish oral traditions: The singing of the prayer …
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 … The recording is from online resources associated with the “History of the American Cantorate” project (Slobin 1984–86). …
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 … into obscurity and are only known to experts in the history of modern Hebrew song. Na’aleh L’artzeinu is only … cantillation, he was also one of the most important early collectors and arrangers of Zionist music in America. …
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 … legislative design. Because of the “folk” origins of its music and the re-writing of Naftali Herz Imber’s poem … sons of Rishon le-Tziyyon perceived in this song their own history, and sang it with great pride [here the song is …
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 … by Joshua Kulp from The Schechter Haggadah: Art, History and Commentary (Jerusalem, 2009): Draw near the day …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… substantial scholarship on this subject, will focus on the history of this song within the haggadah , the question of … 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 …
Sher
… and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from … around 1830 (in Czechoslovakia) and the quadrille in the early nineteenth century (Parisian), and the lancers was … German folklorist Franz Bohme, whose work on the history of the dance in Germany (1967 [1886], 1:56) served …