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Karev Yom
… deep baritone voice, Bikel reprimanded Gazit in highbrow modern Hebrew by saying that “the Hebrew language is still … as an individual and contextualize him in terms of a generation of Israeli artists who left the country just a few … Israel composers that dominated the “golden age” of the modern Hebrew song in the 1930s and 1940s: Matitiyahu Shelem …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… It also exemplifies the elusiveness of the symbols of modern nation-states. From the outset, we note that this is … melody and text of Hatikvah as known in the present have generated a rather dense, one-hundred year old literature on … diasporas, was a crucial component in the nourishing of the modern Jewish national sentiment in the first two decades of …
Vemen vestu zingen, vemen? Leibu Levin Performs in Yiddish
… booklet also includes a full transcription, transliteration and translation of all the texts into English, … … Archival recordings … Bukovina … Historical recordings … Modern Yiddish stage … Non-religious Yiddish music … USSR … …
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 …