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Contemporary Jewish Music: A New Series of the JMRC (2009)
… Contemporary Jewish Music: A New Series of the JMRC With the release of … character of its CD releases (Anthology of Music Traditions from Israel) moving into the field of … the music of the Roma while in Europe, Hajdu focused on the musical traditions of the Eastern European Hassidim residing …
A Crossroads of Jewish Music Scholarship: A. Z. Idelsohn and the Publication of Jewish Music in its Historical Development
… The Fifteenth World Congress Of Jewish Studies Jerusalem Special panel (Plenary of … the first time to bring together many fragments of Jewish musical knowledge into a single, grand English language … with its own consistent (if sometimes obscured) musical tradition. While Idelsohn’s treatise was in one sense a …
Adon Olam
… that this hymn dates back much further to the Babylonian Jewish community. In the Sephardi tradition, an additional two verses are added, and the hymn … someone on their deathbed. There is a wide range of musical settings for this hymn, including melodies from …
Cleaving tune (Niggun Dvekut)
… whether with or without text, are considered the core of musical creativity in all hassidic communities. They are … to this term among Ashkenazic hazzanim, see: Avenary, The musical vocabulatory of the Ashkenazic Hazanim , p. 190. [2] … 75-77, no. 2 and p. 78, no. 3; Hajdu-Mazor, The Musical Tradition of Hasidism ,pp. 432-3, ex. 6. … 9565 … …
Zemirot
… specific repertories: The first, according to the Sephardic tradition, refers to the preliminary section of psalms and … which are sung during and directly after Sabbath meals. The musical versions are numerous and heterogeneous reflecting a … and leaned heavily on Liturgical modes and formulae. 2. Non-Jewish folk tunes served as the music for the Zemirot texts; …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… (petition) is a religious practice maintained by several Jewish communities. It consists of gatherings that occur … in that the piyyutim are arranged according to the maqamat (musical modes) in use in the court music of the Ottoman … embedded in the Sephardi liturgical and paraliturgical tradition, and have remained a main trait to this day. …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… development against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon comprises what Avenary calls the … language like pentatonics, but uses a strongly profiled Jewish prayer mode whose foremost characteristic is a stock …
Purim, Purim, Purim lanu
… Images: Musical Transcription Transcription done by Abraham Zvi … to serve as hazzan (cantor) of the flourishing Portuguese Jewish community. In this city, he taught the Oriental Sephardi liturgical tradition of his native Saloniki. In 1628, he published the …
Prayer for the state
… for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.” The Jewish Oral Law, the Mishnah, carried on the same idea: … first section includes poetic devices that are rare in the traditional Hebrew prayers of antiquity, such as a large … prayer posed a dilemma for synagogue cantors regarding its musical performance. Since the Eastern Ashkenazi cantorial …
Selihot according to Siftei renanot
… (Bene Berak, 2001) … As the High Holidays approach, the Jewish Music Research Centre dedicates the Song of the Month … are extracted from a presentation titled “Islands of Musical Memory: Lucena (Spain, 11th century)-Djerba and … its own textual compilation. However, the core of all the traditions is the recitation of the Thirteen Attributes of …