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El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… The Sephardic copla, El incendio de Saloniki (The Fire of Saloniki), also known as La cantiga del fuego (The Song of the Fire) and, after its opening line, Día de … consisted of these forms and, similar to many other Sephardic traditions in the greater Mediterranean and …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… 14 from the 1998 JMRC recording Nights in Canaan, Early Songs of the Land of Israel (1882-1946) . … Not all … secular and sacred poetry characteristic of the Andalusian Sephardic milieu. The lyrics cover an apparently earthly … muwashshah ), meter and rhyme pattern, betray its Sephardic origins, although other options (such as Italian) …
Arba Otiyot
… and the members of the rabbinical dynasty he founded. The songs have been codified in a compendium titled Yagel Yaacov … University institution dedicated to the research of the Sephardic and Oriental Jewry, under the direction of Yair … Disk … Contemporary Jewish Music … Sacred Hebrew Songs from the Saharan Maghreb … Piyyutim … Choral, Choral …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… during the Sabbath. Therefore, a prominent motif in these songs is the figure of Elijah the Prophet (Eliyahu), whose … of a baqqasha for Motzei Shabbat. It is performed by Sephardic and Eastern (Oriental) Jews in a variety of … Performances The piyyut “Eli Eliyahu” is sung only among Sephardic Jews and those from the Middle-Eastern …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… texts grew exponentially through time (see for example our Song of the Month archive). The singing of serial folksongs … of socialization into the Ashkenazi dominated milieu, Sephardic and Oriental Jews learned many metric Haggadah … Jewish community traces its origins to Baghdadi Jewry. Sephardic melodies of this kind are also found in Abraham Z. …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… centerpiece of the morning service for Rosh Hashanah in the Sephardic liturgy and appears also, since at least the early … (Ten Days of Repentance). While its prominence in the Sephardic and Yemenite rites is maintained to this day … As the High Holy Days season arrives, we dedicate again the Song of the Month to this text, that was already featured is …
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 America – A. W. Binder (1895-1966) … in Latin letters in an inconsistent mix of Ashkenazic and Sephardic pronunciations. None of the songs have …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… and reproducers of these stories than they do about the song’s actual historical past. Untangling these stories … what you think. It does not derive from Smetana nor from a Sephardic prayer. And an early Zionist pioneer did not … vols., 1914-1932) dedicated to the music of the “Oriental Sephardic” Jews, the distinguished musicologist Abraham Zvi …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… of the prayer and singing style known as “Jerusalem-Sephardic,” which originated among the Jewish communities … musical influences. Contents The tradition of “Jerusalem-Sephardic hazzanut and piyyutim The baqqashot singing … use of maqam . The use of maqam for liturgical poetry and song was based throughout the 17 th century on extensive …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… Example 6 Notation and 1st and 7th verses to the wedding song based on "E h ad mi yodea" found in I.L. Cahan's 1957 … of influence.” (Tabory, 1988: 66) Variations from Sephardic and Eastern Jewish communities “E h ad mi yodea” … (2012) pointed out a few variants found in different Sephardic communities. The primary differences between each …