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1. Maqam Bayat Nawa
… Instrumentalists include Avraham Salman (qanun), Albert Elias (nay), and violin (likely al-Kuwayti or Sassoon …
Noche de Alḥad (Al Dio alto)
… Sephardi Ottoman Jews use this melody also for Lekha eli teshuqati by Abraham Ibn Ezra, a piyyut sung in Yom …
Niña llena de brillos (Ah ninia Jena di brillos, Ah ninia lüna di brilles)
… European style, the song opens with a relatively long melisma without clear beat on "Ah", as was customary in many …
Ventura y desventura en el amor (Venturoso mansevo, Venturozo Mansevo)
… cruela, d'esta negra mancha. Trujites en mi seno tu angelica facha. Sos hermosica sin dinguna tacha. S'entiende …
Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur
… زعرور) was born in Baghdad in either 1902 or 1896—per Israeli immigration documents—to a family of ten children. As … an early age, which exposed him to the richness of the religious vocal repertoire of his community and to the Iraqi … hinder his general education and the study of Torah in the religious school he attended. Although his father confiscated …
Por qué no cantáis la bella (La Reina estava lavrando, La reyna estava lavrando)
This truncated version of the romance ¿Por qué no cantáis la bella? (CMP J4) is rare…
1. Oh Lovely Parrot!
… past in Palur or in Parur itself. In addition, the quarreling birds pecking out each other’s feathers may reflect …
Splendid Singing Birds: Jewish Women’s Songs from Kerala
… scholarship by anthropologist Barbara Johnson, the project relies on fieldwork carried out in India and Israel for over …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… Its continuity and pertinence for different generations relied on the potential of the practitioners to embellish the … Chants hebraïques suivant le rite des communautes Israelites de l’ancien Comtat Venaissin (Paris: Delanchy: 1887), … the relative isolation of the Comtadin Jews, Idelsohn believed, following his historiographical logic, that they …
Flory Jagoda
… own compositions, including the globally popular Ocho Kandelikas . She had become everybody's nona by the time she was …