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Zemirot
… The word Zemirot means literally 'songs' or 'hymns' but is used to refer to two specific … shel Shabbat (Sabbath hymns) translated variously as table songs, domestic songs and home songs . These are a specific set of religious poems in Hebrew or Aramaic written mostly between the 10th and 17th …
Diwan
… anthology of poems by one or several poets. In the medieval Hebrew poetry of Al-Andalus, the term Diwan meant … prayer-book Tikhlal, and included a collection of poems, songs and blessings composed by the Sephardi poets of … Naomi Bahat-Ratzon and Avner Bahat , for the JMRC CD: With Songs They Respond . Go to the CD Webpage to listen to …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… poems written by the poets of the so-called ‘Golden Age’ of Hebrew poetry in Spain (10th to 13th centuries), and these … the Baqqashot to this very day; his book, Zemirot Yisra’el (Songs of Israel) was published in three editions: Safed … CD Song of Dawn . Jerusalem: Jewish Music Research Centre, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2007. 2. Sasson, Amnon. ' …
Im nin'alu
… to many melodies. Alternate stanzas are written in Hebrew and Arabic. Here stanzas 1, 2, 3, and 7 are printed … variant of the so’er (rajaz): -˘˘- -˘˘- - / -˘˘- -˘˘-. This song, as performed by Bracha Zefira, who sang a setting of … 240) Here we present four different performances of the song, including ten different melodies. This combination of …
Purim, Purim, Purim lanu
… Europe and North Africa of the “new” style of religious Hebrew song that developed in the 16th century in the Land of … out that in its form, content and general spirit, this Hebrew song strongly recalls songs for Purim in …
Mi-al har horev from the manuscripts of Obadiah the Proselyte
… The preparation of this song of the month was inspired by several recent inquiries … a general picture regarding this interesting set of early Hebrew musical manuscripts. In 1918, a fragment containing … (line 6 of the recto to line 10 of the verso) contains a Hebrew letter clef, marked by the letter dalet , the fourth …
Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… called Maftirim performed its ancient repertoire of Ottoman Hebrew music on Sabbath mornings and afternoons at the … But Haim was not a full-time cantor who recorded some songs in Ladino. He moved into what we may today call the …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… rite. As the High Holy Days season arrives, we dedicate the Song of the Month to some rare recordings of the Ashkenazi … Shofet kol ha’aretz belongs to the medieval poetic Hebrew genre called pizmon that is characterized by a … the present-day availability of medieval manuscripts of Hebrew liturgical orders allows for a fundamental revision …
Ki Hinneh Kahomer
… of Jacob Schoenberg, where the melody appears in the song Shehav Beni, Shehav Bimenuha , with lyrics by Emanuel … taken from Philip Birnbaum's High Holiday Prayer Book (NY: Hebrew Publishing Company, 1951). This piyyut is a part of …
Ner Haviv, Ner Na'eh
… a Hanukkah celebration, Jerusalem 2001 Transcription of the song … 57 … Jerusalem … This song of the month was released in the old website of the … can be now amended. The text was written by the Polish-born Hebrew poet and author Sh. Shalom (pseudonym of Shalom …