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Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… shall see below) was then reprinted from Goldfarb’s in several widely disseminated American Hebrew-Yiddish songsters … studying them shows the complex process through which modern favorites in the Jewish repertoire were constructed … Kisselgof and his colleagues attempted to provide modern Jewish families with educational songs for all the …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… (Today is Purim, Brothers). Our research led us to several versions and variants of this song, reflecting once … repertoires were constructed by diverse agents in the modern period. One of the recordings of this song that we … rhythmic melodies, a tradition that was maintained in the modern Israeli repertoire of Purim songs, especially for …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… obscurity and are only known to experts in the history of modern Hebrew song. Na’aleh L’artzeinu is only dimly … culture, the contemporary klezmer scene, and even into modern synagogue liturgical practice. As the first published … now animates the Chalutzim and Chalutzoth, and that the generations to come, may look back to these songs as those of …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… of the modes. Section 11 deepens the analysis with a consideration of one additional phrase and the melodies for ends … in both sections as one of the main sources for the modern musicological use of the term. Dalia Cohen (2006, … (2013) correlates the Tiberian system of te’amim with the modern prosodic hierarchy, theorized in Selkirk 1984 and …
Assaf Shelleg
… history, post-tonal theories, postcolonialism, neoliberalism, and contemporaneity) while focusing on the cultural … (Oxford University Press, 2014) studies the emergence of modern Jewish art music in Central and Western Europe in the … romanticist nationalism amid the dissemination of modernist compositional devices and against the backdrop …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… in the non-Ashkenazi Italian rite is also attested in several medieval manuscripts of the Roman Jewish rite available … Of course his terminology is a bit uncomfortable to post-modern ears. Categories of authentic and ethnic musical … Sephardic, melody is probably the “original” one. He also heralds some of Avenary’s points. The hymn [Shofet kol …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. Friedman’s … cantorial music, the major scale and its derivatives are generally perceived as being more joyful, celebratory, and … cry”—an octave leap at the opening of a melody—appears in modern Hebrew compositions in which the singing subject …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… the character of the texts included in this compilation. As modernity made its inroads into Jewish homes, more metric … strata of the Haggadah . The questions appear almost literary as we know them today in the oldest stratum of the … between the question (traditional) and the answer (modern). Put differently, in the process of oral …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… fields) and also translated important books of his era into Hebrew. [1] Performance Context “Eli Eliyahu” is … sung by the Jews of Baghdad. Eli Eliyahu Text Transliteration from Hebrew Eli Eliyahu Eli Eliyahu / Eli Eliyahu … book “Elef zemer ve-‘od zemer,” a practical collection of modern and old Hebrew songs intended for Israeli singing …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… Hebrew manuscripts includes various Iraqi, Cochini (from Kerala in India), Algerian and Italian manuscripts which … liner notes Mazor writes: “One of the oldest songs in the [modern] Hebrew repertoire. The author's name, Shlomo, is … song with an “Oriental” flavor. So far we have covered the modern Zionist story of Kikhlot yeini . However, what about …