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Hayrana Laih
… is popular in the Arab world, but also has connections to Jewish musical contexts and musicians. The lyrics of Hayrana Laih were written … Daoud Hosni (1870-1937), an Egyptian composer of Karaite Jewish origins composed it in 1932 for the Egyptian singer …
Ner Haviv, Ner Na'eh
… it with an important twist: the identification of texts’ author and an additional musical version, very … on the production together. The writer of most of the texts of the medley was the poet Binyamin Avidany, who wrote … by Sh. Shalom reveals the musical abyss separating diverse Jewish sectors cohabiting in very close proximity in …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… of digital resources have enhanced the study of the Jewish liturgy helping us to make more accurate assessments … we can reconstruct with a certain degree of accuracy how Jewish liturgical practices evolved prior to the invention … in place and could be transferred to the singing of other texts. The thirteen to fourteen century Ashkenazi Mahzor at …
Hanukkah Blessings
… Blessings while lighting the candles is a well-established Jewish family practice that is usually performed by the head … when the lighting of the candles occurred in community contexts, special musical settings were arranged. Our Song of … the first two bars of the Maoz Tzur melody. Scholars of Jewish music from each generation, such as Eduard Birnbaum, …
Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… Sephardi cantors who use it for singing other liturgical texts. The melody consists of two musical phrases repeated … Judeo-Spanish speaking Jews. The old traditional Ottoman Jewish community ruled by rabbinical authority was shattered … French), to liberal trends in Judaism (especially to Jewish nationalism or Zionism) and to subversive political …
Mi-al har horev from the manuscripts of Obadiah the Proselyte
… manuscripts of Obadiah the Proselyte. The staff of the Jewish Music Research Centre hopes that the information … of Mi-al har horev , and a fragment with additional Hebrew texts containing neumatic notation. The additional hymn … University collection and the Adler Collection at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Obadiah the Proselyte was born …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… language like pentatonics, but uses a strongly profiled Jewish prayer mode whose foremost characteristic is a stock … bible, and there are precedents for the connection of Bible texts with Biblical chant. Furthermore, this topical motif … Hanoch Avenary, “The Aspects of Time and Environment in Jewish Traditional Music,” Israel Studies in Musicology, IV …
Adon Olam
… that this hymn dates back much further to the Babylonian Jewish community. In the Sephardi tradition, an additional … a popular hymn and is sung in many Para-liturgical contexts. In the Moroccan tradition, Adon Olam is sung at … of musical settings for this hymn, including melodies from Jewish and secular sources. In some communities Adon Olam is …
Akedah
… act, and replaces Isaac with a ram for sacrifice. In the Jewish tradition, Akedat Izthak is used as a symbol for … References to this narrative can be found in the religious texts and secular literature of Jewish communities around the world. … Akedah …
Cleaving tune (Niggun Dvekut)
… ascribe an aura of holiness to those tunes that are sung to texts holding mystical connotations, such as the Kabbalistic …