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Mizmor le-david (Psalm 29)
… urban centers of Morocco, a further proof of the liturgical music links between these Jewish centers in the past and of the ongoing presence of … Amsterdam by the choir. The last verse receives a special musical treatment, a sort of cadential pattern that leads to …
Yevarekhekha
Birkat kohanim (Priestly Blessing) is one of the most moving and solemn moments of…
Az yashir Moshe (Song of the Sea; Exodus 15) (2 versions)
The Song of the Sea or Song of Moses, a section of the morning liturgy, is sung in…
Im tashiv (Qiddush shel Shabbat)
… commandment (Exodus 20:11) and this serves as a textual and musical transition to the major mode in which the … Portuguese qiddush is similar to the one sung in Moroccan Jewish urban centers and is a further testimony of the links … between the Moroccan and the Western Sephardi liturgical music traditions. … The Western Sephardi Liturgical …
Kamti lehallel leshem hael hanikhbad
… Lopes Cardozo has an unusually flexible rhythm, with four musical phrases in the AABC pattern, after which the refrain … ends on the first tone. This tune may have Eastern European Jewish origins. … The Western Sephardi Liturgical Tradition …
Kol beru’e ma’ala umata
… Prof. Palache was the Parnas Presidente of the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam before World War II. According … services in the Italian tradition of Padua (see: Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection , AMTI 0201, …
Tzur mishelo akhlanu
… the festive Sabbath eve meal, are a favorite location for musical creativity in most Jewish traditions. The Portuguese Jews in New York City …
Lekha dodi
… of Safed in the sixteenth century, is one of the most musically rich synagogue services. Its highlight is the … 1505-1584) that is sung to many different melodies in each Jewish community. The Western Sephardi tradition, however, … variants are documented at the different Spanish-Portuguese Jewish centers, already appears in musical notation (without …
Moshe Havusha
… traditions are based on both Syrian (“Halabi”) and Egyptian musical styles. Today, Havusha, who still lives in the Beit Israel neighborhood, is a popular hazzan , payytan , musician, and singer, with a large following across … competition held in Haifa, where he competed against both Jewish and Muslim musicians. Source: Goldstein, Riki. “A …
Isaac Levy
… Isaac Levy was born in Manisa near Izmir to a Sephardic Jewish family. At the age of three, he moved with his family … Mandatory Palestine. Levy studied at the Conservatory of Music in Jerusalem (now the Jerusalem Academy of Music and … verses and piyyutim written by poets of the golden age of Jewish culture in Spain, such as Rabbi Yehudah Halevi, Rabbi …