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Harmonizing the Jewish Modes
… … Sacred Music Press of the Hebrew Union College … … 1958 … Prayer … Modes … Synagogue … Synagogue music … Magen Avot … … … Shteiger … Ashkenazi … Isadore Freed … Harmonizing the Jewish Modes …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… This article shows the crystallization of the prayer and singing style known as “Jerusalem-Sephardic,” which originated among the Jewish communities scattered throughout the Ottoman Empire … singing tradition found among the descendants of the Jewish communities exiled from Spain to the lands of Islam …
"Shema ha'el ‘aneni batefillah" (Hear O Lord, answer my prayer)
… coded versions of the names Shlomo and Sa'id. It is a prayer for salvation and the sanctity of the Sabbath and … … "Shema ha'el ‘aneni batefillah" (Hear O Lord, answer my prayer) …
Deborah Lynn "Debbie" Friedman
… Deborah Lynn Friedman was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an … shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. Friedman’s compositional … worshippers were seeking more accessible, communal modes of prayer. Friedman’s early compositions were designed to be …
Lazare Saminsky
… In 1908 he became a founding member of the Society for Jewish Folk Music , working as its first secretary. During … expedition in which he collected Biblical cantillations, prayer chants, melodies, and other sacred musical traditions … this office, he played a crucial role in the forming of new Jewish music to be performed in the Reform synagogues of …
Seliha-Selihot
… for forgiveness for one's sins that appears in various prayers and services. The Seliha does not have a fixed form, … up to Yom Kippur, and these differ among the various Jewish communities. The Ashkenazi communities begin … month (Yemenites recite it for half of the month). 'Each Jewish community developed a specific mode of Selihot and …
Arvit
… Arvit is the last of the three daily services of the Jewish liturgy, along with Sha h arit and Min h a which are … it was Jacob who created the Arvit service (the morning prayer of Sha h arit is credited to Abraham and the … nusa h , the Arvit service begins with “Hu rahum.” Many Jewish communities originating in Islamic countries begin …
"Shema ha'el ‘aneni batefillah" (Hear O Lord, answer my prayer)
… coded versions of the names Shlomo and Sa'id. It is a prayer for salvation and the sanctity of the Sabbath and … … "Shema ha'el ‘aneni batefillah" (Hear O Lord, answer my prayer) …
Kaddish
… is one of the most important and central parts of the Jewish liturgy. Most of it is in Aramaic, and it is used as a passage between various parts of the prayer, and at its end. Originally, the Kaddish was not an … in research: In February 2007, an important 18 th century Jewish musical score has been discovered, which include …