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Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… phrases can all be located in traditional liturgical poems and the lyrics, like many of the songs in Binder’s …
Or Haganuz
… literary texts (in this case liturgical texts and Yiddish poems) in their music, Hajdu offers a fresh and sensitive …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… Tikvatenu (“Our Hope”) in Imber’s inaugural collection of poems Barkai (‘Morning Star,’ Jerusalem, 1886), its … the privilege that in our house he wrote some of his best poems that eventually published in his collection of poems titled ‘Barka’i.’ The song ‘Hatikvah’ was the most …
Karev Yom
… The rest of the texts are by canonical poets whose poems were set to music by composers of the period, such as … the Byzantine period. It corresponds to a series of seven poems for the Sabbath in which Exodus 12, 29 (“At …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… of Iraq. The musical and textual character of these poems is more varied than the style of the baqqashot …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… “ H ag Purim” was previously set to a variety of religious poems in Hebrew and Yiddish. It was also featured in many …
Leo Wiener
… Vols. I-III (1922). Weiner translated Yiddish songs and poems. The poet he valued most was Maurice Rosenfeld and he introduced him to the world by translating his poems and essays into English. He died in 1939 in Belmont, …
Forshpil (LKT)
… that Sabbath,... the chazan sang certain liturgical poems with a special tune called ‘Spinholz melody.’ After …
Woody Guthrie's Hanukkah Songs
… Hanukkah, was released in her 1947 collection of children's poems and songs Ikh Zing , and can point towards a possible …
Coplas - Complas
… genre in the Sephardic Jews musical tradition.. Strophic poems, with various but very definite textual structures, in …