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Brakha Tzefira
… she grew up with, and in them, she was exposed to the melodies of the liturgy, absorbing piyutim and more. Like … event. Tzefira's turn to art music, rather than the Israeli folksong, was acclaimed by some, while criticized by others. … the oriental melody into Israeli music, symphonic and folkloric, through 30 years of her shows in Israel and …
Elohim Eshala
… Michael Collection, R 0080. This is a copy of the 1958 Folkways release by the Israeli singer Geula Gill “Yemenite songs and other Israeli folk songs.” Gill (b. 1932 in Tel Aviv as Geula Levavi from … is the then entrenched perception of the Yemenite Jewish melodies as surviving specimens of great antiquity, going …
Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim
… communities, from Yemen to Lithuania, developed unique melodies for the blessing, the Ashkenazi community had the … the other hand, the Eastern European music's source is from folkloric inventions of the priests. In similarity with folk songs in general, while some were uniquely beautiful …
Hora
… from Rumanian. As an ancient term it meant a circular folk dance. Later, it came to signify also a specific dance. The term is also used for two kinds of dance melodies in the Rumanian and Moldavian folklore: slow with triple meter, and fast with duple meter. …

Society for Jewish Folk Music
… who together formed the “St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music.” Members of the society included the violin … a unique style that merged the melodic elements of Jewish folk and liturgical music – the music of the “klezmer” – … Hebrew Melody by Joseph Achron The Character of Jewish Folk Melodies The melodies of these composers – whether original …
Contrafactum
… probably evolved due to the popularity of existing folk songs making it easy to sing and memorize a new poem or … reason is that new texts were written faster than new melodies and therefore one melody would be used for several …
Cute Boy, Charming Girl
… amateur poets and composers, translated songs, and borrowed melodies. Most of the songs chosen for Cute Boy, Charming … (1882-1948) … Zemer Iveri, Zemer … 23 … 2013 … Israeli Folk Songs … Children's Songs … Israeli Music … Zemer Ivri … …
In Ale Gasn\ Hey Hey Daloy Politsey
… musician, conductor, arranger and an authority in Yiddish folk and theater music. Mlotek arranged the song for a … sung twice. This song appears in two collections of Yiddish folksongs: Skuditsky (Kiev, 1933) and Beregovski (Kiev, … may differ either in the words or the music. One of the melodies in Beregovski's Old Yiddish Folksongs has a similar …
Moyshelekh Un Shloymelekh (part 1)
… poem was first published in 1901. Brounoff composed two melodies for this song, one published in 1905, and the … throughout the Jewish world. It attained the status of a folksong, as seen in some recordings and citations, in which the composer is marked as 'Folk,' and only the name of the famous poet is remembered. …

The “Hebrew Melody” by Joseph Achron: New version for voice, violin and piano premiered in Jerusalem, January 8, 2009
… it was performed in concerts of the “Society for Jewish Folk Music.” Later on, Achron returned to this work at least … to the circles of the Saint Petersburg Society of Jewish Folk Music. Free English translation of the text for the … work. Wails of the lowly Sayings most holy, In the olden melodies return, Floating softly over hearts that burn. …