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The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… defined melody usually sung by the congregation. The prayer melodies were usually adaptations of popular Arabic and … example, appeared in his books with signs indicating the foreign sources to the melodies at the opening of each piyyut . Piyyutim during the …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… of Zion we were forced to use imitations of the songs of foreigners. For example, the song ‘Hushu ahim Hushu, narima … Israel,’ the name of the Hebrew version of Byron’s Hebrew Melodies ] ---translated by Yehudah Leib Gordon [published … ve-al matar’ by Sara Shapira we used to sing according to a foreign melody. [8] And ‘On the rivers of Babylon’ according …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… forms and/or combined Hebrew sacred and poetic texts with melodies from pre-existing popular songs, a practice with … of songs”, whence he challenged them to compare their melodies and maqams with his own compositions (Shelemay … stood in contrast to the dog displayed on records of the foreign “His Master’s Voice” label—the company appealed to …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Hebrew text is a free adaptation from the Lithuanian. The melodies are almost identical in the first section, while … second, which he regarded as a corruption stemming from foreign influence (Goldenberg 2004). Karnes quotes Idelsohn … harmonic minor). Nathan Shahar (1989, 220), having encoded melodies of Hebrew songs by their scale degrees in relation …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… us, and belted out as loudly as they could many different melodies. I stared at Father’s face as he sat captivated by … disappointment was [because] the Hebrew songs were sung to foreign folk melodies. I am certain that the kindergarten … for teachers’ training that would be independent from any foreign intervention. Yellin had close contacts with …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… had a very good musical memory, excellent for remembering melodies that he used to fit to the texts of the zemiros … course of many hours on the Sabbath. I had to repeat those melodies even before I had learnt how to read. Later I found … Soul, the synagogal music which had been so permeated by foreign melody; by the fact that all of the works of the …