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Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… in Binder’s book, would sound familiar to most Jews with a religious background but would be meaningful to secular Jews … L’artzeinu. The Yiddish lyrics of this song are deeply religious in nature and talk about the coming of the … the Yiddish world with its unique combination of secular, religious, Zionist, and radical ideologies found their own …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… and below each word. However, the chant also has clear musical features, with a variety of scales, motives, … the purpose “of establishing an aural-spatial context for religious performance, inspiring and expressing a state of religious spirituality” (2000, 14). The present analysis …
Assaf Shelleg
… Musicologist and pianist Assaf Shelleg is senior lecturer of musicology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was … of Musicology and Jewish Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia (2011–2014), …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… of the opening stanza, is the refrain (the same words and music are repeated) and x, the last line of the rest of the … Shofet kol ha’aretz.” This is the earliest mention of the music of our poem, and obviously it indicates that in the … liturgical context, and is transformed into an independent religious song, performed on a weekday with instrumental …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… role in dramatically shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. … career began in the 1960s, developing out of the folk music and communal singing tradition of Jewish summer camps. … English translations and interpretations of liturgical and religious Jewish themes, educational songs for children, …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a … These additions also blurred the borderline between the religious and mundane spheres in this domestic Jewish … text phrase by phrase, a common learning technique in religious schools in Eastern Europe. Our website includes …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… from B’nai Jeshrun: http://www.bj.org/spiritual-life/music-of-bj/invitation-to-piyyut-na/el-eliyahu/ Literary … asks for a revelation from God or from the Messiah. Music: Origins and Performances The piyyut “Eli Eliyahu” is … the Sephardic version is included in a chapter of pizmonim (religious songs with refrain) not associated with a …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… and its documentation are therefore formidable. However, musical renditions of the piyyut are rather rare and will be … That the major Hebrew websites respectively dedicated to religious and secular songs included Kikhlot yeini in their … one transcribed and published by Isaac Levy as a Sephardic religious song and recorded by Voice of the Turtle in 2000. …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… with them as they migrated, including literary traditions, musical forms and the Judeo-Spanish language, Ladino. The Jewish musical life that developed in Saloniki consisted of these … this fire was punishment for the sins of not keeping the religious laws of Shabbat ( los pekados del shabbat ).” 8 El …
The Liturgy of Beta Israel: Music of the Ethiopian Jewish Prayer
… familiarize them with general Jewish history and Orthodox religious law ( Halacha ) that regulates the private sphere among Jewish citizens in the State of Israel. These religious leaders of the Beta Israel community were seasoned … until the mid-1980s. You can also find this album on Apple Music , or download MP3s on Amazon . … 42 … 7 … 3 CDs + 1 …