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Halleluya halleli nafshi (Psalm 146)
… This chant is an example of Hebrew psalmody that consists of a flexible melodic formula … This is one of the oldest genres of Sephardi liturgical music. It is used for singing psalms on diverse occasions, …
Mizmor le-david (Psalm 29)
… This is a rhythmicized example of the Hebrew psalmody used for the Sabbath eve (compare with no. 9 … urban centers of Morocco, a further proof of the liturgical music links between these Jewish centers in the past and of … Amsterdam by the choir. The last verse receives a special musical treatment, a sort of cadential pattern that leads to …
'Et sha'are ratzon
… and last strophes of one of the most remarkable medieval Hebrew poems based on Midrashic themes that are related to …
Alekhem 'eda qedoshah
… The qinnot (dirges) for the Ninth of Av, the Hebrew date marking the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, are one of the oldest musical layers in the Western Sephardi liturgical …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… in the Jewish past. A case in point is the scholar and musician Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern … Jewish history, including among other things the revival of Hebrew in Ottoman Palestine, the creation of a new secular … himself left a rather short autobiography in English and Hebrew published towards the end of his life, when his …
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, … appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one appeared in Die Chasanim Welt 3, no. 15, (Sh’vat, …
Y espera, señor (17)
… wishes to look well (v. 7) for the guests (v. 8; note the hebrew word kahal ). Whoever has a good body should dance … Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle … Ethnography … Ethnomusicological Research … Ladino Songs … Wedding … לדינו … …
Desde hoy, la mi madre (24)
… a good sign (v. 12, 14) (note: e n buen siman, from the Hebrew: besiman tov). Score and lyrics: … Judeo-Spanish … Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle … Ethnography … Ethnomusicological Research … Fieldwork … Ladino Songs … לדינו … …
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. … 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 … Songs for the Year Cycle in our series Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel. … Mose salió de Misraim …
‘Le-El ‘Olam’ by Mordecai Dato: In search of a melody for an ancient Italian Hebrew poem
… addition to ‘Lekhah Dodi.’ Even more important for the main musical argument of this Song of the Month (see below), the … – in an Italian volgare , that is, written in Hebrew characters and with many Hebrew loan words. The poem, which clearly dialogues with …