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With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen
… characteristic of the diwan repertoire. Some of the songs are heard in a series of different performances, in … on the basic characteristics of the music of the diwan songs. Each singer chose the stanzas that he wanted to sing, … pp.) … Jerusalem, Israel … Jewish Music Research Centre, Hebrew University of Jerusalem … Anthology of Music …
Hay ram galeh
… Eastern Sephardic tradition of turning secular Arabic songs into sacred Hebrew ones. Halevi is certainly not a trained poet but … . This experience resulted in his comand of a wide range of Hebrew formulae that can be assembled to substitute the …
Seliha-Selihot
… The word Seliha (plural- Selihot ) means forgiveness in Hebrew. In the singular form Seliha means a piyut of … Lehanim , each of which is adapted to various different songs. For further reading about Siftei Renanot , see here . …
Society for Jewish Folk Music
… be no Klezmer revival as it is flourishing today. The Hebrew National Style While each of the composers of the new Hebrew national school had his own style, there are a number … the classical and romantic composers. Aside from the two songs opus 91 by Brahms for viola, contralto and piano, the …
Hora
… example no.2 ). The Hora dance in Israel In the renewing Hebrew language, the term became a synonym to an Israeli … until they became associated as Hora tunes. 3 In time, Hebrew words were written for these tunes (such as the … adera 4 ) 5 . The Zionists settlers also sang Israeli folk songs with the Hora 6 , and indeed, many songs in the …
Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim
… figure in which each of their hands makes the shape of the Hebrew letter Shin ( ש ) , and bring their hands together so … Venetian manuscript dated from 1714/1715, located today at Hebrew union College in Cincinnati, contains four notations … Piyutim, others were adopted from secular Jewish songs, as well as from non-Jewish sources. Some of these …
Elohim Eshala
… Folkways release by the Israeli singer Geula Gill “Yemenite songs and other Israeli folk songs.” Gill (b. 1932 in Tel … Yemenite track in this record, the rest being mostly Hebrew covers from the Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) repertoire and … noticing is that Damari sings with a pronounced Yemenite Hebrew accent, a feature that she will not stress later on …
Brakha Tzefira
… one neighborhhod to the next, Brakha was attracted to the songs she heard. The synagogue played a central role in the … to challenge themselves by attempting to suit the words of Hebrew poems, especially those of Bialik, to the Arabic or … ear and a light touch at the piano, and was familiar with Hebrew lyrics, although from a traditional galut (Diaspora) …
Aharon Amram
… best teachers, while also learning Math, History and Hebrew in a Jewish school. In 1950, as part of 'Operation … he read weekly torah portions, recited Haftaras, and sang songs of rabbi Shalom Shabazi and some Israeli songs that he knew. Following this activity, he received a …
Karaite Jews Musical Tradition
… is sung in a responsorial manner, whereas paraliturgical songs are sung either in a responsorial manner or by the … both in Eastern Europe and in Egypt. Whereas the liturgical songs were not, for the most part, influenced by Western … communities also have secular songs, which are not sung in Hebrew. These include songs in different dialects, such as …