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Maoz Tzur: The Mystifying Wandering of a Hanukkah Anthem
… of the Hebrew University program, examines (with audio examples) dozens of versions of the holiday classic drawn …
Mordekhai Hershman
… the porous line separating secular from the religious musical practices led by great cantors of the time such as … Isaiah (2:1-4) and the uniquely expressive through-composed musical score (8:30 minutes long, published in New York by … as Nisi Belzer and Zeidel Rovner, who provided his musical and professional grounding. In 1913 he obtained his …
An Ashkenazi version of “Ehad mi yode’a” in…Arabic
… remarks refer to the two main sharqi versions documented musically, the ones from the ancient cities of Aleppo … their brethren from the lands of Islam in Palestine had musical ramifications that are still to be studied. The …
Nahum Heiman
Natan Yonatan, Nahum Heiman's friend and writing partner says about his friend (in the…
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… his own Gesamtkunstwerk, ‘Yiftah’, as ‘hizzayon negini’ (musical play). Modern Hebrew writers embraced the biblical … plays, plural of ‘hizzayon’] of Israel’s history, with musical accompaniment (i.e., ‘hizzayon negini’), ‘that will …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… format. It is also possible to see that there is a musical rhyme matching the textual rhyme of each section of … … Iraq … Baghdad … Ottoman … North Africa … Middle East … Musical … Traditions … “Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut …