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Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… the melodic progressions of the song reveal the following features: Part A : There are two similar moments of calling … films were milestones in the history of popular music in feature animated films. Alan Menken composed the music for …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… again the Song of the Month to this text, that was already featured is previous years, in order to analyze two new … musical traditions of Shofet kol ha'aretz Our previous feature on Shofet kol ha’aretz in the Song of the Month … the “common” melody into one type. He also points out the features that separate these three sub-types. Avenary shows …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… below each word. However, the chant also has clear musical features, with a variety of scales, motives, contours, … present paper, I will provide a new perspective on musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern Ashkdnazi … will find that the Haftarah and High Holiday melodies have features in common, including the scale and focal pitches, …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… the hottest of days. The recorded performance of the song featured in this article (from Avraham's 1995 album Neve … [11] while in the villages the women's skin was darker, a feature considered to be sign of beauty in turn. Avraham …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… two decades. This collaborative ethos is certainly a major feature in the gestation of the Zionist anthem and its … , Spring 2012, http://www.midstreamthf.com/2012/spring/feature.html, accessed April 3, 2015; Zvia Ben-Yosef Ginor, … , Spring 2012, http://www.midstreamthf.com/2012spring/feature.html , accessed April 3, 2015. Bohlman, Philip. …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… They included only two stanzas but later publications featured between three to nine stanzas. One of the most … the leap of a fourth in the opening phrase, both melodies feature simple stepwise progression. Additionally, except … melody to this song can be found in Gideon (1923), which features an arrangement for two voices and piano …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… of the numbers being more Christian in character. They also feature the distinctive phrasing of God dwelling and floating in the heavens and on the earth. These features led some researchers to question whether the Jewish …
Sol Zim
… are sung in Congregations over the world. His 23 Recordings feature Yiddish, Israeli, Chassidic, Broadway, Opera and Pop …
Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… [which] is followed by dances, of which the most striking feature is the ‘Mitzvah dance,’ the dance of the foremost … function of the dance niggunim in the mitsve tants the only feature common to both communities is the importance … of the sections within the tunes reveals a common feature, namely, symmetry. The overwhelming majority of the …
Freylekhs (LKT)
… by men.” EncyJud 1971, p. 1265-66 . “The core repertoire featured principally dances named freylakhs with a large … less manifest on the level of musical scales. These which feature an augmented second dominate in more than half of …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… the chain of violent acts. We shall return to this unique feature below. Detail of the Aramaic and Yiddish translation … and finally it lacks the theosophical ending. This later feature apparently was added once the song became a fixed feature of the Haggadah’s closing section. Hereby follows an …
Had Gadya
… the chain of violent acts. We shall return to this unique feature below. Detail of the Aramaic and Yiddish translation … and finally it lacks the theosophical ending. This later feature apparently was added once the song became a fixed feature of the Haggadah’s closing section. Hereby follows an …


