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Numerical Representation of Variants of Orally Transmitted Tunes
… It is a well-known fact that orally transmitted (folk) tunes exist in many variants, which differ from each … harder to establish. In comparative musicology and folklore the proof of the affinity of a variant or … is particularly important, when we compare two or more melodies with different texts, which appear or are claimed …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… (oud, violin, lyre, qanun, frame drum) that echoes these melodies in instrumental interludes. Though the overall … version provides a flavor of makam Bayati. The vocal melodies of the other versions, in contrast, remain in a … Another song regarding the Great Fire: http://www.jewishfolksongs.com/he/el-dio-la-mate-esta-grega Footnotes: 1. …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… in their original performance context or with their melodies of old. The Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini, which used … ha-mayim,” has the indication “ne’imah ‘amamit,” i.e. “folk melody.” While only Idelsohn has documented the … that Magilnitzky refers to as “the known melody”), the “folk” one became widespread, indeed as a Hebrew folksong, in …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… our Song of the Month archive). The singing of serial folksongs added at the end of the seder is a late medieval … into Jewish homes, more metric tunes (such as Hassidic melodies) took over texts of the Haggadah that were … founding member of the Saint Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music. His work was performed only once in Haifa in …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… career began in the 1960s, developing out of the folk music and communal singing tradition of Jewish summer … services has inspired many contemporary composers to write melodies set to this text. A number of melodies for 'Shema' Koleinu' written by Ashkenazi composers …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… … In 1926, in “New Palestinean [sic] Folk Songs” – one of the earliest Zionist songbooks … of this melody appears in A.W. Binder’s “New Palestinean Folk Songs,” it is important to explore first the history of … revealed in part by acquaintance with some of the beautiful melodies of this collection… It is, therefore, important to …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… energy rather than legislative design. Because of the “folk” origins of its music and the re-writing of Naftali … Israel,’ the name of the Hebrew version of Byron’s Hebrew Melodies ] ---translated by Yehudah Leib Gordon [published … [11] Although Carul cu Boi is usually described as “folk song,” at least its text is relatively “modern” for it …
Karev Yom
… earliest commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after World War … as an American theatre and movie actor, entertainer, and folk song revivalist. Music reviewers stresses his Yiddish … non-Hassidic Ashkenazi tradition that frowns upon rhythmic melodies of the kind of the “common” ‘Karev yom’? …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… (nine stanzas) appeared in Yehuda Leib Cohen's Yiddishe Folkslieder mit Melodien (1957), where the text appears … in the ninth volume of his Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies (1932), which is dedicated to Yiddish song (example … robbery and shouting to passersby to help him. Actor and folk singer Theodore Bikel during a live performance …
Zemerl (LKT)
… reference. “...a zemerl [pl. zmires ]...is a religious folk song in Hebrew or Aramaic sung on the Sabbath. Bearing … commonly sung to a variety of tunes, as a zemerl (religious folk song).” Schlesinger, Alpert, Rubin 1989 . ( Recording … The klezmorim would play until late at night. Their melodies were known by the names ‘zmires’ or ‘ …