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Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… circumstances in which Imber’s poem was shaped and the musical contrafactum (adaption of a preexisting melody to a … culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its … Hatikvah on canonic Hebrew texts. Imber, a Jew raised in a traditional family, certainly had access to the Hebrew …
Cross-Repertoire Motifs in Liturgical Music of the Ashkenazi Tradition: An Initial Lay of the Land
… Motifs in the Liturgical Music of Ashkenazi Tradition,” was presented at the World Congress of Jewish Studies , Jerusalem, 2013. This article is an … motif … Motifs … Structure … Chazzan … Chazzanut … Hazzan … Musical structure … Repertoire … Synagogue … Synagogue music …
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 … comes after the festive dressing of the bride in her traditional regalia. In some places such as Rada'a, in … two stanzas) with each line consisting of two hemistiches. Musically, each textual line is accompanied by a melodic …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… ‘Haynt iz purim brider’ is found as an opening for many traditional Purim songs. The phrase is usually used to … It is hard to asses to what extent this is an original musical composition by Goldfaden or just an adaptation of a … eventually found itself back on the stage as a successful musical in Israel and Broadway (as The Flying Matchmaker ). …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… song, reflecting once again the intricate ways in which Jewish repertoires were constructed by diverse agents in the … Library, a still largely unexplored treasure of Jewish Musical Americana, includes a magnificent recording of … of this piyyut with a variety of rhythmic melodies, a tradition that was maintained in the modern Israeli …
Moritz Rosenhaupt
… town of Jesberg near Kassel on March 14, 1841. However the Jewish Encyclopedia (1906) places his birth place in … major codifiers of the South German synagogue liturgy in musical notation and yet his name does not appear … the scholarly literature concerning the Western Ashkenazi tradition. Those closer to his time thought differently. For …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… rest serve as archival records of an earlier time and its musical repertoire. The songs are all notated with piano … in such a ready-to-use manner, easily accessible to all musically literate people regardless of Hebrew knowledge. … explained. The individual phrases can all be located in traditional liturgical poems and the lyrics, like many of …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, … and below each word. However, the chant also has clear musical features, with a variety of scales, motives, … features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern Ashkdnazi tradition, a tradition that developed in the areas that …
Assaf Shelleg
… Schusterman Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology and Jewish Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at … devices constituted composers’ perceptions of Jewish musical traditions as much as they facilitated their dialectical …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… we can reconstruct with a certain degree of accuracy how Jewish liturgical practices evolved prior to the invention … is an order of prayers for the entire year according to the tradition of Worms. Before the poem “Melitz yosher ya’amod, … sung preceding and during the High Holidays. Ashkenazi musical traditions of Shofet kol ha'aretz Our previous …