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El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… the concluding lines 3 and 4 create B. In many recorded performances of the song, the B portion is repeated, … a series of melismas, down to the tonal center. Analysis of Performances There are a number of commercial recordings of … role of Ladino music over the past century, from a living practice centered around Sephardic community life to a …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… The Baqqashot (petition) is a religious practice maintained by several Jewish communities. It … indicating the maqam and the lehanim to be applied for the performance of the song are provided in the headings of the … to the crystallization of liturgical traditions and piyyut performances that conform to this musical system. The most …
Elohim Eshala
… exposed during her youth in Israel, are behind her performance in this track. Moreover, the track includes two … musicians. Moreover, unlike the shorter recording the performance develops as a self contained “suite” whose main … basic trait of the Yemenite (Jewish and Muslim) performance practice of this type of poetry. Also worth noticing is that …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… projects, prepared historically informed and creative performances, and organized a network of annual conventions … reinventing the parameters and dynamics of Yiddish music performance-scholarship. Rubin's book allows the reader to … territory that rests upon several layers of memory and practice. The core of the book begins in Chapter 3, where …
Yosef Hadar
… choirs, as well as an orchestra. In addition, he organized practice and performance venues for his groups, while all the while …

Karaite Jews Musical Tradition
… men, and children—and is an inseparable part of the performance of texts within the various yearly and … textual sequence but also documents and immortalizes the performance within the context of annual and lifelong … a responsorial manner or by the entire congregation. This practice of involving as many members of the community as …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… Amsterdam, the piece was not necessarily connected to the performance practices of the local Jewish-Portuguese community. To the … that have been recorded since the 1950’s. In terms of performance, the song is still connected to Shavuot, however …
Emanuel Zamir
… class contained a band that prepared a Hebrew folksong for performance. Apart from these small bands, Zamir also … dance. Zamir had a sense of mission, which he brought into practice through his singing classes, and on which he wrote, …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… and Yemenite rites is maintained to this day through its performance, its presence in the Ashkenazi rite is obscured … orders allow for a fundamental revision of the origins and practice of the pizmon Shofet kol ha’aretz. Thanks to the … of the stanzas of our poem. More information regarding the performance of our piyyut appears in the Mahzor mi-kol …
Moshe Cordova
… from Istanbul and Saloniki, whose main context of performance was the synagogue. Southern Tel Aviv and its … the early 20 th century, inside and outside of Turkey, the practice of Ottoman Hebrew music declined for diverse … Turkish tradition. The Turkish makam became a minority practice among Sephardic Jews in Israel, kept alive only in …