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In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… 720 … In honor of May Day and the tradition of Jewish political radicalism in late nineteenth-century … of Russian Jewish political life.” (4) There are two main musical arrangements to the song. The first is a monophonic … associated with Saint Petersburg’s Society for Jewish Folk Music . The soprano voice follows a melodic line …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… of intensive study by a distinguished gallery of modern Jewish and non-Jewish scholars since the early … the modern fate of the song with in contemporary Israeli musical repertoire. H ad Gadya was incorporated to the … Gadye),” The Study of Yiddish: Studies in Language, Yiddish Folklore and Literature 1 (1954), pp. 214-218. Shmeruk’s …
Had Gadya
… of intensive study by a distinguished gallery of modern Jewish and non-Jewish scholars since the early … the modern fate of the song with in contemporary Israeli musical repertoire. H ad Gadya was incorporated to the … The Study of Yiddish: Studies in Language, Yiddish Folklore and Literature 1 (1954), pp. 214-218 where he …
Atah Ehad
… a zemer for the Sabbath, a Hassidic niggun and a Yiddish folksong. In addition, some Ashkenazi tunes were … see below. Although Idelsohn can be credited as the first musician to introduce this melody to the Zionist repertory … Basis — The Discovery of the Orient and the Uniformity of Jewish Musical Traditions in the Teaching of Abraham Zvi …
The Israeli Mediterranean Style
… selected versions of European Mediterranean styles in art music that Jewish composers—the founders of Israeli music, among them … that Bartók created to incorporate Eastern-European folk tunes and their melodic, rhythmic, and structural …
Para Para
… on the JMRC’s release Cute Boy, Charming Girl (Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel, 23) , a collection of Hebrew … was found in the composer's manuscript of his collection of folk songs that is now located at the Abileah Archive at the … origins of this melody are also unknown, it has definite European traits. Fried’s version is more similar to Cohen’s …
Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in German
… status it acquired exemplify the mechanisms through which Jewish modernity articulated itself on the basis of German aesthetics, in this case poetic and musical. Dort wo die Zeder also shows how the Zionist … the song a mythic aura that is commonly associated with folksongs. Dort wo die Zeder consists of four stanzas of six …
Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
… influenced by Slavic languages. Both the language and the folksongs, like many other elements of Ashkenazi culture, … baby, a secular activity, was sometimes accompanied by non-Jewish melodies, sometimes by religious melodies, and … strata, makes it possible to speculate in regards to the musical development of the tradition, despite the lack of …
Brakha Tzefira
… His wife Hadassah, Brakha's beloved teacher, encouraged her musical talents, and proposed that Tzefira should sing … Tzefira knew from her childhood including Sephardic songs, Jewish songs from Yemen, Persia, and Bukhara, as well as … event. Tzefira's turn to art music, rather than the Israeli folksong, was acclaimed by some, while criticized by others. …
Elohim Eshala
… Michael Collection, R 0080. This is a copy of the 1958 Folkways release by the Israeli singer Geula Gill “Yemenite … They formed an ensemble specializing on Israeli “folk music” called “Oranim Tzabar” playing arrangements by … exoticism” that captivated at the time the American Jewish audience. It is clear that the voices of Shoshana …