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The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, 1970), Hanoch Avenary set a new bar in the musicological study of the piyyut . His insights on a … and stable hazaj . The scholarly edition of Ibn Gabirol’s religious poetry ( Shirei qodesh le-rabbi Shlomo ibn …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone … sang in Arabic and recordings of them performing Jewish religious hymns in Hebrew are rare. In that regard, the … facilitating musical exchange was the migratory paths of religious students and pilgrims: Egyptian Sheikha Sakina …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… in sections according to the different Turkish makam s (musical modes), titled Shirei Israel be-eretz ha-qedem … to makam Rast places this version in the realm of Turkish music. Secondly, the title clearly delineates its … by Meldola, includes piyyutim and other non-canonical religious texts that could be integrated into the liturgy …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent … the ambivalent aspects of modern Moroccan Jewish identity. Religious zeal intertwines with modern secular practices, … As saint veneration was and still is a hallmark of Moroccan religious devotion, hillulot , the yearly celebrations of …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, … which Jewish holydays were reimagined and stripped of their religious origins and dimensions. The song shows how in the … through secular prisms and taught to children as part of nonreligious Yiddishist curricula. Its publication in a …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… as a symbol, provoking ipso facto strong emotional and religious feelings among listeners. Surprisingly, this topic … Gross, and Lehnardt 2016, 482). According to Jewish religious practice, the passage from Genesis is recited by … century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records …
The Meaning of the Modal Framework in the Singing of Religious Hymns by Christian Arabs in Israel
… we mean the accepted framework in which a certain musical repertoire is organized, as for instance, the … Modes … Modality … Modal system … Christian Arab … Israel … Religious music … Hymns … Singing … The Meaning of the Modal Framework in the Singing of Religious Hymns by Christian Arabs in Israel … Dalia Cohen …
The Musical Realization of Biblical Cantillation Symbols (te‘amîm) in the Jewish Yemenite Tradition
… recited by the Yemenites in three different social and religious contexts: (a) the various synagogal services, of … The aim of this paper is to present the repertory of the musical renditions of the Pentateuch and to investigate the relationships between the te’amim and their musical realization within these three social contexts. … …
The Musical Passage in Ibn Ezra's "Book of the Garden"
… born in 1055 in Granada and died after 1135. He refers to music in many of his poems, mainly those describing … wine-drinking sessions; he also deals with the theory of music in two of his books: the book on poetic art, Kitab … to the development of practical music through his religious poems and penitential prayer compositions set to …
The Performance Practice of the Rig-Veda: A Musical Expression of Excited Speech
… The Veda, as is well known, is the religious lore of ancient India, crystallized during ten … importance and not to be separated from the text. The musician, observing the Vedic cantillation especially that … it a special place among the various kinds of musical expression of the world, and it has been the object …