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56. The Song of Ruth
… be blessed, Forever and ever, may Tamburan be blessed. This popular ballad recounting the biblical story of Ruth appears … Chendamangalam, and Parur. In his efforts to textualize the lyrics, Zacharia found enough significant linguistic and …
33. In the Ship
… recorded 2001 performance (stanzas 1 and 2) with additional lyrics from the only known textual version (stanza 3). [2] … reached a wider audience through its performance by the popular Israeli vocalist, Etty BenZaken. Though not herself …
27. The Elegantly Adorned Bride
… Yemenite, and other Mizrachi Jews, which have gained wide popularity throughout Israel in recent years (Sharaby 2006) … the entire Nirit group performed it for their own CD. The lyrics are found mostly in notebooks from …
22. Brit Milah (Circumcision) Song
… to prophets and other holy men in the Bible. The Malayalam lyrics follow quite closely those of the Hebrew piyyut “’ El … also uses the uncommon epithet “David Mashiaḥ .” This popular Malayalam song is found in sixteen notebooks from …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… origin, klezmer tunes, and melodies of Yiddish popular and Hebrew quasi-Hasidic songs that were … by various courts, and thus represented a “pan-Hasidic” popular repertoire. Finally, most of the nigunim included in … Their melodies were simple and relatively short, with the lyrics the core element dictating the musical choices. …
‘Le-El ‘Olam’ by Mordecai Dato: In search of a melody for an ancient Italian Hebrew poem
… of Dato’s poems show his engagement with the increasing popularity among his compatriots of a new ritual eventually … a distinctive trait of the Ancona ritual, with the familiar lyrics of ‘Adon ‘Olam’, a text he knew by heart? After all, …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… the Jewish musical imagination in both its scholarly and popular forms. But Idelsohn the man himself remains an … Berlin where she assisted A[braham] Z[evi] transcribing his lyrics and in his work. She had a beautiful Hebrew … to HOM IX (1932), he writes “In 1918 I needed a popular tune for a performance of my mixed choir in …
El Jiwneh Hagalil (Lied der galilaischen Arbeiter) – God will Build the Galilee (Galilee Worker’s Song)
… song (Seroussi 2010). Different tunes, variations of the lyrics, arrangements and performance-practices reshaped its … circles of sixteenth-century Safed. Through wide-spread popular and artistic renditions, it reached a new symbolic … (1904-1914) El yivneh ha-galil quickly spread out as a most popular Hora dance. Lazar Saminsky ’s solemn vocal …
65. El baile de los falsos (Sida Musafija)
… This is a Judeo-Spanish contrafact of an extremely popular dance melody of the early twentieth century made … version as La Mattchiche , or Matchiche . Evidently, it was popular in Sarajevo where the linguist Julius Subak recorded … , or at least its refrain, originates in an 1895 zarzuela (lyrics by P. Cadenas; music by Pedro Badía) and is not …
Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs
… the forgotten voices of many Sephardic artists extremely popular a century and more ago, but also expands the … >>> “Los judíos españoles de Oriente: Lengua y literatura popular,” Buletin de la Institución Libre de Enseñanza IX, … content of Jewish Sephardic songs and traditional Muslim lyrics, ‘sevdalinka’, in Bosnia,” Proceedings of the World …