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Sirba
… refers to the term in question. It also indicates whether musical notation or sound recordings are included in the … motion in the melody performed against a brisk 2/4 rhythm, Jewish sirbas -- especially outside Romania -- do not … sirba or other brisk tune are common in non-Jewish musical traditions of northeast Romania and southern Ukraine, and …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… known as “Jerusalem-Sephardic,” which originated among the Jewish communities scattered throughout the Ottoman Empire … th centuries and developed under Turkish-Ottoman and Arabic musical influences. Contents The tradition of … Egypt. H azzanim (cantors) and payytanim passed on these traditions from generation to generation over hundreds of …
And Now We're All Brothers: Singing In Yiddish In Contemporary North America
… song in America, with emphasis on its relation to past traditions and present concerns, most particularly the Holocaust and the construction of Jewish identities through musical performances. … 1 … 33942 … Farnham, Surrey … …
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, … correlates nicely with the dynamic story and transgressive traditions of Purim. We will find that the modes for Torah …
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 … sung preceding and during the High Holidays. Ashkenazi musical traditions of Shofet kol ha'aretz Our previous feature on …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a … with liturgical ones (blessings, prayers and psalms). The musical repertoire for the performance of the Haggadah ’s … Until immigration to Israel, in the non-Ashkenazi Jewish traditions, as in the Ashkenazi ones, the Four Questions (as …
“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 … is possible to distinguish between two branches of melodic traditions associated with this piyyut : the Ottoman/Iraqi … format. It is also possible to see that there is a musical rhyme matching the textual rhyme of each section of …
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 … and its documentation are therefore formidable. However, musical renditions of the piyyut are rather rare and will be … Early Songs of the Land of Israel (Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel 12). In his liner notes Mazor writes: …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… destructive in scale, the fire came as a great blow to the Jewish community living in Saloniki at the time. The fire … Greeks, and Muslims, each developing their own cultural traditions and speaking in their own languages.” 5 The Jews … with them as they migrated, including literary traditions, musical forms and the Judeo-Spanish language, Ladino. The …