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Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… 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 … Abraham Goldfaden (right), for many the “founder” of modern Yiddish theatre. Indeed, the melody appears for the …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… song, reflecting once again the intricate ways in which Jewish repertoires were constructed by diverse agents in the modern period. One of the recordings of this song that we … section of the Jacob Michael Collection of Jewish Music at the National Sound Archives of the Israel National …
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 … his first efforts in what would be a life-long devotion to modern Hebrew song. In 1922 Binder began his position as …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, … and below each word. However, the chant also has clear musical features, with a variety of scales, motives, … in both sections as one of the main sources for the modern musicological use of the term. Dalia Cohen (2006, …
Assaf Shelleg
… Musicologist and pianist Assaf Shelleg is senior lecturer of … Schusterman Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology and Jewish Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at … (Oxford University Press, 2014) studies the emergence of modern Jewish art music in Central and Western Europe in the …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… of the opening stanza, is the refrain (the same words and music are repeated) and x, the last line of the rest of the … we can reconstruct with a certain degree of accuracy how Jewish liturgical practices evolved prior to the invention … Of course his terminology is a bit uncomfortable to post-modern ears. Categories of authentic and ethnic musical …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Composer Deborah Lynn Friedman (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an … role in dramatically shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. … 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
… about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a … the character of the texts included in this compilation. As modernity made its inroads into Jewish homes, more metric …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… wars and vicissitudes in Spain that greatly affected the Jewish communities there. In 1140 Ibn Ezra immigrated to … from B’nai Jeshrun: http://www.bj.org/spiritual-life/music-of-bj/invitation-to-piyyut-na/el-eliyahu/ Literary … 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
… of the Land of Israel (1882-1946) . … Not all traditional Jewish holiday songs have survived in their original … and its documentation are therefore formidable. However, musical renditions of the piyyut are rather rare and will be … liner notes Mazor writes: “One of the oldest songs in the [modern] Hebrew repertoire. The author's name, Shlomo, is …