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Moshe Cordova
… of the important collection of Ottoman piyyutim (religious poems), Shirei Israel be-Eretz Haqedem “Songs of Israel in …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… as this we can see the move of Western Ashkenazi liturgical poems such as Shofet kol ha’aretz to Eastern Europe. When …
Melody and Poetry in the “Kuzari” (Hebrew)
… or for practical resp. useful purposes). For the metrical poems, however, which are verbose and declamatory, and are …
Marc Lavry
Marc Lavry was born in Riga, Latvia and received his formal musical education at the…
59. La reina de la gracia (Isaac Algazi)
This is a love song in makam Nihavent and usul Devri Hindi (7/4). The poem was written…
Hay ram galeh
… lacks a fixed poetic meter, but most textual units in both poems consist of five phonetic syllables. The following …
Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardi Melodies of Qinot for the Ninth of Av
… rite, they are sung after the 'amidah . These are strophic poems treating the central topics of the Ninth of Av: the …
Society for Jewish Folk Music
Violins, Voice and Jews
In the spring of 1897, on the eve of the Russian Orthodox…
Salamone Rossi as a Composer of "Hebrew" Music
… it includes two forewords; three laudatory poems; a rabbinical responsum to a query about the …
David Nowakowsky
David Nowakowsky was born in Malin, Russia near Kiev. Nowakowsky left home at an early…