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El Jiwneh Hagalil (Lied der galilaischen Arbeiter) – God will Build the Galilee (Galilee Worker’s Song)
… status in the twentieth century as an iconic song of the Hebrew pioneers rebuilding Eretz-Israel. [1] Since the … Jewish national rebirth colored in the dorian mode. The Hebrew tune of the Galilee workers provided not only a sharp … the prominent color of the augmented second colors the melody in distinguished oriental style. See the archival …
“Schlof majn Kind, ich wel dich wigen” (Wiegenlied) – Sleep my child, I will cradle you (Lullaby)
… for voice, viola and piano (Schitomirsky 1912). [1] The melody marked con sordino (muted violin or cello) is almost … expressed in his piano part. The piano does not double the melody, but provides a rocking cradle-sway feel through a … to night-time with an ambivalent song in either Yiddish or Hebrew, that greys out the diaspora/Israel borderline. …
Nahôn libbo is hujire – Whole-heartedly is the fearful believer
… to beginning of the nineteenth century) celebrates the Hebrew month of Nissan, the month associated with the … this Iraqi Jewish tune adapted from Idelsohn’s Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Music (1923b: 140, no. 193) is an unexpected … that will abide by the non-total modality of the melody. The somewhat naïve attempt to avoid clear tonal …
Hebräischer Tanz (Original aufgenommen von S. Kisselgoff) – Hebrew Dance (Originally transcribed by S. Kisselgoff)
… continuing with the dance. On the repeated G note in the melody the piano brings unexpected harmonies: C minor … back on G major. Built on motivic developments, the melody moves around G harmonic minor to G freygish ending on … Hebräischer Tanz (Original aufgenommen von S. Kisselgoff) – Hebrew Dance (Originally transcribed by S. Kisselgoff) …
"Im Nin’alu Daltei Nedivim" (Were the gates of the munificent closed)
… to many melodies. Alternate stanzas are written in Hebrew and Arabic. This recording features Shalom Keisar, … The singer opens with the song’s most widely known melody, which was popularized by Bracha Zefira among the … closing hemistich. The tawshihִ is sung to another, faster melody. It is usually sung in a responsorial manner, as …
A Polka-Mazurka
… Composed in 1937; first collection " Leibu Levin: Word and Melody " (In Yiddish, Hebrew and English; Tel Aviv: I.L. Peretz publications. …
[E-erokh nivi. Mi-kehilah]. (Berit-milah)
… terms of quality and completeness. It is a very well-known melody from Aleppo and Jerusalem for a famous poem by the Moroccan Hebrew poet R. David Hassin (1727-1792) that rapidly spread … recording shouts “shavu’a tov”, “have a good week”). This melody, that appears to be a variant of the North Moroccan …
Ani hatsal [sic] (Shir hatunah)
… notation by Abraham Zvi Idelsohn in one of his earliest Hebrew articles titled “Yemenite Jews and their Songs” ( Luah HaHaretz LiShnat 5669 [1908], text on p. 128 and melody in the supplement of music notations, pp. 4-5). This … (starts at 25:05). The second text, sung to the same melody, is Be'et ratzon tehinati , a poem from the …
Kol beru’e ma’ala umata
… of Prof. Juda Leon Palache. Prof. Palache was a lecturer of Hebrew Language and Literature at the University of … Cardozo, it was Zwi Werblowski, Professor Emeritus of the Hebrew University, who transmitted this tune to Leon Palache in Amsterdam. This melody may belong to the Italian stratum of the Amsterdam …
Mizmor le-david (Psalm 29)
… This is a rhythmicized example of the Hebrew psalmody used for the Sabbath eve (compare with no. 9 above). Each verse is set to a simple syllabic melody that consists of two main motifs, expanded or … here. By the beginning of the 20th century however, this melody was performed in Amsterdam by the choir. The last …