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The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… The prayer melodies were usually adaptations of popular Arabic and Turkish songs. The old style Ottoman-Jewish musical tradition was … said, “entered hearts and souls” and became revered and popular among the Sephardic and Eastern Jews in Jerusalem. …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… melody. 'A Gneyve' is part of a large repertoire of Yiddish songs addressing the hardships of a poverty ridden life that include songs that bemoan the troubles of the poor, as well as the … female performers to sing them on the stage. She was widely popular in Europe and later in the United States, where she …
Karev Yom
… commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after World War II. … of the duos and trios of Israeli singers that became so popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s, especially the … modernized Haggadot of several kibbutzim. Several Israeli popular artists, such as Yaffa Yarkoni and Shuli Natan, …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… scholars cited two nineteenth-century patriotic German songs, certainly known to German-speaking Jews, as a … feature in the gestation of the Zionist anthem and its popular reception. Music In 1884, Imber read his poem … ‘ Luncile s-au deştepta ’) that continues to be quite popular in Rumanian and Moldavian schools to this day. [13] …
Vivat
… 1820s-30s]. Fridkin 1925, p. 45-47. “...some ‘Dorian’ songs do bear the imprint of Moldavian influence. We are thinking of songs in which the intonations of Moldavian dances can be … reproduce exactly the beginning of the second figure of the popular Moldavian dance ‘Vivat’...” Goldin 1989, pp. 36-37 . …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… (‘Today is Purim, Brothers’) is one of the most familiar songs in the American Yiddish repertoire for Purim. It has appeared in many American Jewish songsters at least since Samuel E. Goldfarb’s Hamenagen [1] … tune (Allegretto) of the widespread Purim song that became popular following the zamelbukh , the melody in Goldfaden’s …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… her unique, wide-ranging style, is in fact a suite of Purim songs. It opens with ‘Haint Iz Purim, Brider,’ which eventually becomes a refrain used between the other songs of the suite. Amid these repetitions of ‘Haint Iz … add new information to what we wrote previously about the popular Hassidic niggun used as a setting for Kipnis' …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… … In 1926, in “New Palestinean [sic] Folk Songs” – one of the earliest Zionist songbooks published in … there are many such commonplace songs. Some of them became popular in one social circle or another and later entered … (1931) and the “Songs of Zion” (1942)). It appears in popular collections of Israeli songs produced in America, …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… of liturgical and religious Jewish themes, educational songs for children, community and identity-building songs … framework would demand a piece that is larger than the popular song format of Friedman’s setting of 'Shema’ … – bVII – V. Figure 8. Shema’ Koleinu as an Anglo-American popular song Debbie Friedman’s “Shema’ Koleinu” appeared on …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… our Song of the Month archive). The singing of serial folksongs added at the end of the seder is a late medieval … mention the presence of this melody in the exceptionally popular A. M. Silbermann and Erwin Singer, Die Haggadah Des … section between Abileah’s score and the melody as it became popular are telling. Abileah starts with a descending fifth, …