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Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… Niggun ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew and Yiddish. Many of these texts touch directly upon … descendants. The story’s primary textual rendering in the Hebrew Bible (Genesis XXII:1–19) is somewhat brief, barely …
Melody and Poetry in the “Kuzari” (Hebrew)
… Judah Halevi's Kuzari speaks of the relationship between melody and textual metre in two kinds of vocal music. The … manuscript readings. Nor does Judah Ibn Tibbon's mediaeval Hebrew translation of the Arabic original resolve the difficulties. The context is a comparison of the Hebrew and Arabic languages. After discussing the uses of …
The Music and its Function in the Singing of the Qasīd anda birabbī dī kalaq (Hebrew)
… hallel is sung by the entire audience to a fixed melody with a slow, measured rhythm typical of liturgical … Function in the Singing of the Qasīd anda birabbī dī kalaq (Hebrew) … Uri Sharvit …
The “Proclamation Style” in Hebrew Music
… The melody-style we want to deal with here is quite well known to specialists of Hebrew music. Nearly all of them have encountered it, … in our opinion, it is one of the oldest strata of ancient Hebrew music. The sharp exposition of the intervals of the …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… performance context or with their melodies of old. The Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini, which used to be performed in … Moreover, the catalogue of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts at the National Library of Israel lists … pp. 38-39, titled “Shir ha-mayim”) without the melody. It is attributed to Ibn Gabirol and prefaced with …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… onle of the last great poets of the Spanish 'Golden Age' of Hebrew poetry. Ibn Ezra was born in Tudela, Spain in 1089 … Ibn Ezra wrote Biblical commentary, poetry, research on Hebrew grammar, writings concerning Jewish thought … Tradition A. Z. Idelsohn first published the Ottoman/Iraqi melody in 1922-23, with two versions published in two …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… New Findings about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely … Ashkenazi communities, a paraphrase in Yiddish followed the Hebrew text phrase by phrase, a common learning technique in … W. Binder, Seder Melodies: The Hagaddah Set to Music: in Hebrew and English for the Religious School, Congregational …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Friedman’s compositional corpus includes music for the Hebrew liturgy, English translations and interpretations of … ensemble, The Chevra, [6] Abie Rotenberg (whose melody appears on the fourth album of the band, Dveykus), … octave leap at the opening of a melody—appears in modern Hebrew compositions in which the singing subject appeals …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… Yemen Shofet kol ha’aretz belongs to the medieval poetic Hebrew genre called pizmon that is characterized by a … the present-day availability of medieval manuscripts of Hebrew liturgical orders allow for a fundamental revision of … IMHM, F 13782). Even more interesting is the mention of the melody of Shofet kol ha’aretz in the manuscript of the …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… ever since the day of the Renaissance Humanists. [1] The Hebrew chanting depends on the text, and is determined by … cantillation may seem antithetical to the kind of fusion of melody and speech that Judit Frigyesi describes in … which are given above or below each word in a printed Hebrew Bible, serve three functions: they indicate the …