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Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… of 'play song” or singing game commonly performed among the Jewish communities of central and southern Yemen. It is sung … h enna ceremony as part of the repertoire of Yemenite Jewish women singers. In Yemen, the separation of men and … or light refreshments, the women and the share'a sing and dance while they decorate the bride's hands and feet with …
Vivat
… wept, and shouted ‘Vivat!’ The guests formed a circle and danced an old-fashioned quadrille with him in the middle, just as at a wedding in a little Jewish town.” [Nikolayev, Kherson province, afterwards the … With the last rhyme the mekhutonim are called out to dance with the bride, and they dance with her. When his …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… song, reflecting once again the intricate ways in which Jewish repertoires were constructed by diverse agents in the … The recordings’ section of the Jacob Michael Collection of Jewish Music at the National Sound Archives of the Israel … recitative without a clear beat, which then flows into a dance niggun . This type of performance recalls the patterns …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… library at the New York campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, was “Six Songs from the Jewish … version of the melody, perhaps one sung without text as a dance niggun – more about this later. The text of the song … produced in America, such as the “Metro Album of Israeli Dances” (1951), Moshe Nathanson’s “Manginoth Shireynu” …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, … I will provide a new perspective on musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern Ashkdnazi tradition, a … Price, James D. 1996. Concordance of the Hebrew Accents in the Hebrew Bible . Lewiston, …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Composer Deborah Lynn Friedman (1951-2011) 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 … the Creator in turn answers the prayer and sends down abundance and blessing. Part B : The second part of the song …
Avi Bar-Eitan
… Hebrew University and the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. Dr. Bar-Eitan’s doctoral work dealt with the … and entrance examinations, and works as a researcher at the Jewish Music Research Center. Dr. Bar-Eitan is the head of … of External Studies at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. He is also a lecturer at the Academy in harmony, …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… wars and vicissitudes in Spain that greatly affected the Jewish communities there. In 1140 Ibn Ezra immigrated to … poetry, research on Hebrew grammar, writings concerning Jewish thought (including philosophy and various scientific … meter, when shva nah is performed as shva na h , in accordance with the metric structure. [7] Abraham Z. Idelsohn, …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… of the Land of Israel (1882-1946) . … Not all traditional Jewish holiday songs have survived in their original … Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini, which used to be performed in Jewish communities on Purim, especially in Germany, is one … folk song,” in the style that would accompany a folk dance. Geula Gill recorded one of the earliest commercial …
Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition
… to arrive at a plain definition of polyphony, in accordance with present day standards of music research. … 9480 … … Instruments … Percussion … Definitions … Monophony … Jewish … Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition … Edith (Esther) Gerson Kiwi …