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Zemirot
… origins, and comprising an ever expanding body of folk material.' The texts of the Zemirot describe the joys … musical traditions one can point to a few types of melodies: 1. Liturgical style recitation of the texts in a … heavily on Liturgical modes and formulae. 2. Non-Jewish folk tunes served as the music for the Zemirot texts; these …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… of the piyyutim. The use of Turkish or Arabic maqamat and melodies of the surrounding musical cultures became embedded … contains two musical genres. One genre consists of rhythmic melodies with a steady beat, sung by the congregation, and … of the Morrocan Baqqashot melodies are modern 20th century folk melodies from Egypt and other Middle-Eastern countries, …
Hebraeisch-orientalischer Melodienschatz, [E] 1923-33 [Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies]
… Liturgy … Babylon … Hebrew cantillation … Eastern Europe … Folk songs … Hasidim … Modes … Music theory … Paraliturgy … … Melodienschatz, [E] 1923-33 [Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies] …
Parallels Between the Old–French and the Jewish Song
… Idelsohn tries to show traces of Jewish music in French folk music. Jews settled in France in the fourth century; … 'we may assume that elements of Jewish religious and folk traditions crept into the folk traditions of the … Idelsohn prepares his comparison of French and Jewish melodies with introductory remarks about the 'predominance …
The Mogen Ovos Mode: a Study in Folklore
… soul, is based on an 'original melodic line of Jewish folk song' and is also the foundation of various synagogue melodies (e.g. Leoni's yigdal). The mode is not exclusively … and German cultures, it gradually disappeared from their folk songs, but remained in a fossilized state in some …
The Cantillation and the Melodies of the Jews of Tangier, Morocco
… Arbor, MI … UMI … … 1993 … Morocco … Hebrew cantillation … Folk music … Folk songs … Sephardi … Ramon Tasat … The Cantillation and the Melodies of the Jews of Tangier, Morocco …
Avodath Hahazzan
… congregational singing; Sabbath zemirot; Hebrew and Yiddish folk songs; 30 Hassidic melodies … 101 … 101 … 10 … 36433 … 159 … New York … Metro … 1943 … Shabbat … Sabbath … Chazzanut … Cantors - Hazzanim … Folk songs … Nusach - Nusah - Nusakh … Synagogue … Synagogue …
We Are Here: Songs of the Holocaust
… States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Research: Bibliographies Melodies and lyrics for over forty Holocaust-era Jewish folk songs. Includes singable English translations for each … … 10 … 36078 … New York: … Hippocrene Books … … 1983 … Folk songs … Holocaust … Translations … Eleanor Gordon …
The Dybbuk - Der dibuk
… The idea for the play came to Ansky as he led a Jewish folklore expedition through small towns of Eastern Europe, … tapestry, mystical themes, star-crossed lovers and haunting melodies were designed to bridge the historical abyss. The …
Musical Characteristics of East-European Jewish Folk-song
… 634-645 … … Ashkenazi people … 18 … 1932 … Eastern Europe … Folk music … Folk songs … Ashkenaz … Europe … Melodies … Motifs … East … Ashkenazi … Ashkenazim … Idelsohn …