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Sheva' Berakhot ("Seven Blessings")
… diverse textual lengths from very short to very long the melody is prolonged by additional motives. The first part … of the Seven Blessings included here employs a traditional melody from Amsterdam in a major mode, repeated with each …
"Im Nin’alu Daltei Nedivim" (Were the gates of the munificent closed)
… The singer opens with the song’s most widely known melody, which was popularized by Bracha Zefira among the … closing hemistich. The tawshihִ is sung to another, faster melody. It is usually sung in a responsorial manner, as … At the end of the song the singers sing a third, slower melody, and a coda-like passage, and then repeat the last …
A Polka-Mazurka
… Composed in 1937; first collection " Leibu Levin: Word and Melody " (In Yiddish, Hebrew and English; Tel Aviv: I.L. …
El [sic] shaare ratson le-hipateah
… the first two stanzas of the poem. This simple, repetitive melody is characteristic of the Aleppo tradition. It was …
Instrumental melody performed on a flute accompanied by percussions.
… Instrumental piece Instrumental melody performed on a flute accompanied by percussions. Name … place and date are unknown. Cylinder # 621. 2:59 The melody is preceded by a short announcement possibly by Isaac … … From the Collection of Isaac Lurie … Instrumental melody performed on a flute accompanied by percussions. …
Be-makhelet [sic!] am barkhu El (Shir le-hatunah).
… ‘Abadi (1826-1884) praising the groom set to a Turkish melody (see the comments in the introductory essay to the …
Shoef kemo eved [Rosh ha-shanah].
… 1913. Cylinder # 629. 2:01 This traditional Aleppo melody for Ibn Gabirol’s piyyut for the morning services of …
[E-erokh nivi. Mi-kehilah]. (Berit-milah)
… terms of quality and completeness. It is a very well-known melody from Aleppo and Jerusalem for a famous poem by the … recording shouts “shavu’a tov”, “have a good week”). This melody, that appears to be a variant of the North Moroccan …
Eli tsur yeshuati (le-Furim)
… the city that began in the eighteenth century. Notably, the melody also resembles the traditional tune of the Coplas de …
Shir agid
… in the pizmonim collection of the Aleppo community. The melody is from the march known as “Affandina” composed by … poet set his song about the ten sefirot of Kabbalah to this melody that he called “Salam al-Khdawi” (Peace upon the Ruler). The melody of this Egyptian anthem was extremely popular among …