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Abda betauhid
… Shalem Shabazi, signed Alshabazi , written alternately in Hebrew and Arabic. It is sung in many celebrations, and … first two stanzas, the first in Arabic and the second in Hebrew. Their style of singing emphasizes their family … movements of the hands and snapping of fingers. The melody is mostly within the range of a tetrachord, with the …
"Se'i yona veshim'ini" (Go, Dove, and hear Me)
… Zecharia Halevi and to Sa'adia. Alternate stanzas are in Hebrew and Arabic. This recording features Zadok Zubeiri … stanza, but repeat it. They begin with a very well known melody in duple meter, slow tempo and flowing rhythm, and …
Linked by Melody: Gibraltar/Moroccan Songs for Passover (and Shavuoth)
… 17: 7; Psalms 29: 11; Psalms 118: 1) sung in the original Hebrew and in Judeo-Spanish translation in alternation. … to Levy, these verses were sung with this particular melody. However, there is an additional reason for this … as a refrain, or end with the opening verse of Psalm 118 in Hebrew (Hodu l’Adonay ki tov, ki le’olam hasdo) followed by …
"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 Menachem Arussi … They are accompanied by a drum and hand clapping. The first melody is in triple meter, with a variation in the tawshiḥ. The second stanza, in Arabic, is sung to a new melody. The soloist, Shalom Keisar, sings the third stanza …
"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 Uri Cohen, … the first stanza, and the first part of the third. The melody of this version is one of the least known to which …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… text for easy online search and mobile viewing. Idelsohn's Hebrew and English biographies, written in the early 1930s, … in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one appeared in Die Chasanim Welt 3, no. 15, (Sh’vat, … the synagogal music which had been so permeated by foreign melody; by the fact that all of the works of the great …
Amen amen shem nora
… 1545), one of the earliest printed collections of religious Hebrew poems, many of which were written by Shlomo Mazal … Tov, a prominent poet who lived in Saloniki and Turkey. The melody is one of the favorite old tunes of the Western … and Southern France too. Rev. Lopes Cardozo learned this melody in Amsterdam from Mr. Leon Palache ( see no.5 above) …
Alekhem 'eda qedoshah
… The qinnot (dirges) for the Ninth of Av, the Hebrew date marking the destruction of the Temple of … the day marking the national defeat. Almost the same melody is sung in Amsterdam and New York City. A version of this melody appears in the Aguilar and De Sola anthology ( 1857: …
Miyom qadmon
… of a society that was dedicated to the study of Hebrew literature. The numerical value of the first letters … of this confraternity. Ahava be-ta'anugim is an unusual Hebrew poem. Its stanzas, in the Italian sesta rima pattern … feleh ("and a miracle") for the famous Dutch waffles. The melody, in the spirit of a ländler , may be of Dutch origin …
'Et sha'are ratzon
… and last strophes of one of the most remarkable medieval Hebrew poems based on Midrashic themes that are related to … to the shofar service. This traditional Western Sephardi melody differs substantially from the tune for the same text … by the hazzan in an embellished version of the same melody used for the stanzas performed by the congregation. …