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Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
… south Germany, was the main spoken language and language of oral creation of the Ashkenazi Jews of both Western and … part of both rural and urban folklore and has developed oral traditions alongside an attachment to the written word. Its …
Menagen
… from the verb 'nagen,' which in the hasidic writings and in oral tradition means singing (and not playing an instrument, …
The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
… prayers according to the Western European Sephardic tradition, with minimal, late kabbalistic elements included. … document the chanted melody. Until the 20 th century, the oral transfer of melodies was still the primary technique of … scores of anonymous pieces that had been passed down orally from the late 18 th and early 19 th century Spanish …
Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in German
… printed with and without musical notation and distributed orally since its original publication. Indeed the amazing … Bimkom ha-erez . It seems that at in the early stages of oral transmission the original German song was “Yiddishized” … This version is noticeable as a transcription from oral tradition, underscored by its melodic and textual …
Andalusian Nuba
… We will also discuss the scales and structure of the traditional Moroccan Nuba (Al-Ala). Introduction In the … on the classical Arabic music of Bagdad mixed with other traditions that were prominent in Spain at that time, … to be connected to older traditions that were transmitted orally by Muslim Spain's greatest musicians from the 9 th …
Para Para
… JMRC’s release Cute Boy, Charming Girl (Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel, 23) , a collection of Hebrew … movement in eight notes, and finally, it is designed for choral singing in three voices: From: Archive of …

The Israeli Mediterranean Style
… derived from the liturgical and para-liturgical musical traditions of Yemenite, Persian, and Moroccan Israeli Jews … Mizrahi and local, Palestinian musical heritage. These traditions inspired the founders who, following Bartók in … polyphonic, expressive settings, much unlike the pastoral, impressionistic Mediterranean vogue of the time. His …
Atah Ehad
… Yeshayahu Meshulam Fish Rotenberg, Kossoni Hassidic tradition, recorded by Ya'acov Mazor, CD 4335 in the … Zionist songbooks reproduced it, sometimes in Idelsohn's choral arrangement, such as Hawa Naschira (Hamburg 1935). … for the second and not primary voice in Idelsohn's choral arrangement crystalized as the song's main melody line. …
In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… 720 … In honor of May Day and the tradition of Jewish political radicalism in late … and replaced with asterisks. The second melody is a choral arrangement by Joseph Achron , the Russian composer …
Shir hama’alot - The umbilical cord between liturgical and domestic soundspheres in Ashkenazi culture
… (Fabian Ogutsch, Der Frankfurter Kantor : Sammlung der traditionellen Frankfurter synagogalen Gesänge. Frankfurt … Hallel, Adon olam, Mevarkhim ha h odesh, etc. These 'temporal' melodies were later brought home and applied to Shir … the festive meal of that Holy Day. The domestic use of temporal melodies brought the festive atmosphere of the …