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Society for Jewish Folk Music
… his life to transcribing, arranging, and promoting the musical heritage of Russian Jewry. He inspired a group of … the earmarks of simple Jewish Klezmer-style folk tunes, the settings have all the complexity and sophistication of late … the influence of these songs Beyond the intrinsic musical value of these songs is the important influence they …
The Israeli Mediterranean Style
… often derived from the liturgical and para-liturgical musical traditions of Yemenite, Persian, and Moroccan … and Persian Jews) and other Mizrahi and local, Palestinian musical heritage. These traditions inspired the founders … religious tropes within densely polyphonic, expressive settings, much unlike the pastoral, impressionistic …
Atah Ehad
… The ABB form of the melody of Atah E h ad is found in all settings of this song in Israel since Idelsohn's 1922 … — The Discovery of the Orient and the Uniformity of Jewish Musical Traditions in the Teaching of Abraham Zvi Idelsohn, …
Had Gadya
… the modern fate of the song with in contemporary Israeli musical repertoire. H ad Gadya was incorporated to the … its persecutors. A contemporary take on H ad Gadya and its musical setting Along with its various literary … inspiring new versions in various languages and new music settings. Recently we came across a new Israeli rock-blues …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… the modern fate of the song with in contemporary Israeli musical repertoire. H ad Gadya was incorporated to the … its persecutors. A contemporary take on H ad Gadya and its musical setting Along with its various literary … inspiring new versions in various languages and new music settings. Recently we came across a new Israeli rock-blues …
Shir hama’alot - The umbilical cord between liturgical and domestic soundspheres in Ashkenazi culture
… Jews often used melodies from synagogue services for settings of Shir hama’alot [The song of ascension, Psalm … the typical melodies of the yearly cycle was a widespread musical custom of German-speaking Jews. [2] In many ways … emphasized how the domestic and public spheres shared a musical repertory. By the second half of the twentieth …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… Eastern European Jewish sources), a third part with new musical material, and a return to the second part as the … poem about the Sabbath candles that appeared in 1929 in a musical supplement to the German Jewish newspaper … Sometimes, when “ H ag Purim” is sung in informal settings, the word 'La-yehudim' (for the Jews) is changed to …
Music Theory as an Expression of Musical and Extra-Musical Views Reflected in Leib Glantz's Liturgical Settings
… Glantz … Boaz Tarsi … Music Theory as an Expression of Musical and Extra-Musical Views Reflected in Leib Glantz's Liturgical Settings …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… circumstances in which Imber’s poem was shaped and the musical contrafactum (adaption of a preexisting melody to a … orally. It underwent, in the process of its reception and musical performances, changes and adaptations. The printed … and Igly’s melodies were totally forgotten. Although Igly’s settings did not survive, one can just imagine what kind of …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… the feelings and state of the women within intimate settings; when they are alone, such as when they grind flour … two stanzas) with each line consisting of two hemistiches. Musically, each textual line is accompanied by a melodic phrase. This pattern creates a binary musical structure of two phrases which alternate in an ABAB …