(442 results found)
"Ahuv mehar hamor natan li morasha" (My beloved from the mountain of Myrrh has given me an inheritance)
… as is usual in folk poems. The melody of this song is one of the most popular wedding melodies, and is … , are also sung to it. Sarah Levi-Tanai also used it in her song Im ha- shaḥar (With dawn); she wrote words of her own … whose verses begin with the first six letters of the Hebrew alphabet. At the time of the wedding celebration more …
The Music on Comtat-Venaissin
… all written in the Comtadin-Jewish dialect, a mixture of Hebrew and Provençal, which on occasion one still hears … of languages, published an anthology of poems in which Hebrew verses alternate with Provençal ones. [4] The poets … de l'ancien Comstat Venaissin ] containing the principal songs, which was published at Aix in 1885 by Jules-Salomon …
Haim Louk
… liturgical poetry), traditional chanting of Psalms, and Hebrew grammar. The school, which played a central role in … repertoire includes Andalusian music (Ala), piyyutim , and songs from the Shir Yedidot tradition (the Moroccan … piyyut . Sources: Louk, Haim. Interview by Edwin Seroussi (Hebrew). April 18, 1999. National Library of Israel. …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… term translates literally as “permission” or “consent” the Hebrew word also resonates with privilege, i.e. the honor … order of the Jews of Provençe, the subject of this Song of the Month, fulfill a similar function to that of the … unique. Its compositional principle is somehow similar to Hebrew psalmody, whereas a musical phrase consisting of two …
Muyhoytü äji dukhdär?
… Muyhoytü äji dukhdär? ("Where is your hair"), is a wedding song in form of a dialogue between a boy and a girl. The boy … manner with suggestive metaphors. The theme of this song is well-known in ancient Persian, Arabic and Hebrew literature. … 8 … 7 … 41472 … Derbent … The Music of …
Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur
… music. According to family lore (see recorded interview in Hebrew with Zaarur’s daughter ), when Yossef was eight years … musics. Zaarur was also a prolific composer. He composed songs in diverse genres including the Egyptian taqtuqa ; modern Iraqi songs similar to those by Saleh al-Kuwaity; muqadimat …
Hablo con coraje + El ardoroso amor (Avlo con coradje, Avlo con coragio)
… Love song in a clearly Western style and in 6/8. It consists of … of twelve syllables. The second strophe is part of the song El ardoroso amor which was included in the Ladino play … El buquieto de romanzas (in makam Rast). The text includes Hebrew and Turkish words (dor, dip). A shorter version of …
6. Coplas de Hanukkah: Dak Il Tas, Toma El Tas
… This text is only a fragment of a very old Judeo-Spanish song about the social activities related to the celebration … appears in this old song at the end of the first stanza, in Hebrew: lehadlik ner shel Hanukkah (“light a Hanukkah … back perhaps to the seventeenth century, as the Ottoman Hebrew poet Avtalyion composed a Hanukkah piyyut based on …
5. Mi-Pi El (De Boca del Dio)
… David Azulay (1724-1806). The exhaustive studies of this song by Bacher (1901-7) and Yaari (1964) maintain that it … that apparently were concieved close to the original Hebrew song. Hereby is the refrain of the song in David … (who receives the Torah from Moses). The song uses the Hebrew alphabet, providing adjectives for these four …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… Hasidic tish-nigunim. Nigunim (Yiddish nign , from the Hebrew niggun —melody) are chants, some with words but most … origin, klezmer tunes, and melodies of Yiddish popular and Hebrew quasi-Hasidic songs that were instrumentally performed at Israeli Hasidic …