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Brakha Tzefira
… one neighborhhod to the next, Brakha was attracted to the songs she heard. The synagogue played a central role in the … of Jerusalem, she and her friends were exposed to Arabic songs and melodies. They used to challenge themselves by … field of Israeli folksongs (Zemer Ivri), and produced more 'popular' music in the form of songs usually with piano …
Elohim Eshala
… Folkways release by the Israeli singer Geula Gill “Yemenite songs and other Israeli folk songs.” Gill (b. 1932 in Tel … "Ve-ha-Kohen”). The second song is “Ah! Ofra,” a song popularized by Sara Levy Tanai. Shlomo Dahiyani's version … Moshe Wilensky (NSA K-334) is instructive. As a composer of popular music, Wilensky had no pretensions in his …
Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim
… the rabbis' reservations, the response verses remained popular, although the variety of responses is diverse and … Piyutim, others were adopted from secular Jewish songs, as well as from non-Jewish sources. Some of these … inventions of the priests. In similarity with folk songs in general, while some were uniquely beautiful with …
Almonds and Raisins
… were made in Yiddish. In Almonds and Raisins (named after a popular Yiddish song), director Russ Karel and narrator … of which star cantor Moyshe Oysher who sings both Yiddish popular songs and Jewish liturgical music. This film is an excellent …
Tipat Mazal (A Bit of Luck)
… is directed by and stars Ze'ev Ravach. It is about Zuzu, a popular Jewish Moroccan singer and the hardships that he and … Ben, who plays the grown up Vivi, each sing a variety of songs during the course of the film. Revach sings in both … place in Morocco at a wedding, he sings Abiadi Yana, a popular Moroccan song that is usually sung during Henna …
Hora
… adera 4 ) 5 . The Zionists settlers also sang Israeli folk songs with the Hora 6 , and indeed, many songs in the history of Israeli folksongs were written in … style of the Israeli Hora, was adopted from one of the popular figures of the Freylekhs . Although, from watching …
Society for Jewish Folk Music
… in an encounter that was to have impacts on classical and popular music to this day. Vladimir Stasov, music historian … written in Palestine and later Israel, as well as Israeli popular and folk music. Without their work, there would be … the classical and romantic composers. Aside from the two songs opus 91 by Brahms for viola, contralto and piano, the …
Contrafactum
… above the first line of their poem a reference to a certain popular melody to which the lyrics could be sung. A famous … (the text in the red square is the reference to the popular melody in which the piyyut is ought to be sung) This … probably evolved due to the popularity of existing folk songs making it easy to sing and memorize a new poem or …
Hay ram galeh
… Eastern Sephardic tradition of turning secular Arabic songs into sacred Hebrew ones. Halevi is certainly not a … such texts, a talent that can be observed in other of his songs set to popular Egyptian tunes such as Yah retzeni ra h em alai Yah …
Hayrana Laih
… … Hayrana Laih is an Egyptian song that was and still is popular in the Arab world, but also has connections to … of Hayrana Laih were written by Ahmed Rami (1892-1981), the popular Egyptian poet who was the main songwriter for Umm … ‘ud player, but his wide popularity stem from the popular songs he composed (more than five hundred), which he wrote …