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The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… to other sections in the prayer service with a defined melody usually sung by the congregation. The prayer melodies …
Zemerl (LKT)
… “Violinist Leon Schwartz performs a kale bazetsn melody, and plays and sings the freylakhs (the second, …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… with slightly different lyrics and a completely different melody. 'A Gneyve' is part of a large repertoire of Yiddish … mit Melodien (1957), where the text appears without a melody. A few of the stanzas are almost identical to those … of any robbery. There are two variants to the song's melody. A.Z. Idelsohn published both in the ninth volume of …
Karev Yom
… the last stanza of Yannai’s ancient piyyut set to a special melody is for the moment unknown. The present musical … it with a modern existence as an independent song. This melody was widespread in Israel, and even entered the … le-limude ha-Yahadut 'Selah', vol. 1, 1964, p.206). The melody is attributed there and in various other sources to …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… users, attempts at reconstructing the “true origins” of the melody and text of Hatikvah as known in the present have … and the musical contrafactum (adaption of a preexisting melody to a new text) behind which Hatikvah was conceived. … to better adjust the text to the rhythmic pattern of the melody. Another source credits educator and Zionist activist …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… many the “founder” of modern Yiddish theatre. Indeed, the melody appears for the first time, with different words of … English title ‘Shepherds’ Song.’ The two sections of the melody appear as two separate items (nos. 21 and 22) in the … song that became popular following the zamelbukh , the melody in Goldfaden’s version is slower (Andante), dramatic, …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… to this question – the original source of the 'Hag Purim' melody – will remain an open one. According to Elie Halevy … had several venues to access to this famous Hassidic melody. After its “adoption” by the Zionists, the Belz …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… – On to Our Land.” Binder indicates that this is a Yemenite melody and gives no attribution for the text. In many ways, … and 1940s. [1] What drew my attention to this song was its melody, one which I had learned in connection with the … sure that I had found a classic example of an old Yiddish melody that was reclaimed by Hebrewists in Europe or …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… cantillation may seem antithetical to the kind of fusion of melody and speech that Judit Frigyesi describes in … Eastern Ashkenazi contexts. As Frigyesi observes, “Melody is not an additional element, but part and parcel of … it, and vice versa: text is inconceivable without its melody” (2000, abstract). And yet, the idea of a fusion of …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… IMHM, F 13782). Even more interesting is the mention of the melody of Shofet kol ha’aretz in the manuscript of the … appears the superscription “Be-niggun [according to the melody of] Shofet kol ha’aretz.” This is the earliest … this manuscript there was an awareness that a traditional melody for Shofet kol ha’aretz was already in place and …