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Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… into several minhagim (“customs” or “traditions”) once the printing press started to produce prayer books in … and by their serial growth from five, to six and to seven words. When exactly these verses entered the mahzor … of Jacobson’s article, one sees how the allure of Rossi’s Hebrew compositions to modern scholars impacts the …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis collection . … songs, it seems that the absence of a scholar familiar with Hebrew and Yiddish folk songs was detrimental to this … suspect this “tuneful if unremarkable” melody (in Karnes’s words) might be related to the melody by which Akara …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… 2 … 712 … “Bore ‘ad ana” (“Creator until when?”) is one of the most ubiquitous qinot (dirges) in the order of prayers … of spiritual reality in the late Sephardic piyyut ,' [In Hebrew], Exile and diaspora: studies in the history of the … all the sung versions of this qinah is the repetition of words in specific patterns. Moreover, a refrain is generated …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hacohen, NLI, Yc 197 … 714 … In his pioneer publication Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, … case from the poetic form and meter of the text. In his words, “the symmetrical bars are the musical counterpart of …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… in a car, driving on a mountain road that winds down along the Lebanese coastline, overlooking the Mediterranean … mobile phone is the copy of a 78rpm record of a pizmon , a Hebrew para-liturgical hymn called “ Yom Yom Odeh ” (Every … Yom Odeh ” as a remnant of a time in which, to borrow the words of literary scholar Lital Levy, “the incorporation of …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… Our song of the month concerns a Sephardic song commonly sung on the … de la Ley” (The tablets of the Law) or, after its opening words, “Nuestro Señor Eloheinu” (Our Lord, our God). … Istanbul. Here we encounter our song as a piyyut , with a Hebrew text, titled “Adonay hu elohenu” (The Lord is our …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… ‘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 … rhyming pattern aabb, ccdd, etc. Each line begins with the words foter kenig (O Father, King), referencing the Hebrew …
Salamone Rossi as a Composer of "Hebrew" Music
… questions should be raised: why Salamone Rossi? why the quotation marks around the word 'Hebrew'? Published in 1622/23, Rossi's collection of Hebrew … moreover, is unusually extensive: it includes two forewords; three laudatory poems; a rabbinical responsum to a …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… 1962 Kikhlot Yeini - Berry Sacharov - 2012 … Track 14 from the 1998 JMRC recording Nights in Canaan, Early Songs of the … performance context or with their melodies of old. The Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini, which used to be performed in … with Jeremiah 35:4). The sonic interplay between the words yeini (my wine) / ‘eyni (my eyes) is the basis of the …
Arba Otiyot
… This CD is dedicated to piyutim (sung sacred poetry) of the Jews of the Tafilalt (Berb. Tāfīlālt) region, in … and the members of the rabbinical dynasty he founded. The songs have been codified in a compendium titled Yagel Yaacov … developed by the Piyut Ensemble of the Ben-Zvi Institute, a Hebrew University institution dedicated to the research of …