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Ner Haviv, Ner Na'eh
… In 1953, Abraham Abuganim (1908-2002), a Sephardic cantor, singer and 'ud player from Jerusalem, composed a Hanukkah … by the orchestra of Kol Israel (Radio Israel) performed by singer Naomi Tzur and arranged by Hanan Shlesinger. This recording is part of the National Sound …
Bin Tavinu Liqnot Bina Ha'azinu
… songs all across the Mediterranean Jewish world, the local singers, unable to figure out what was the melody that …
Yechidi Laderech Li Etse'a
… it), the Hebrew version is not known at all. Aryeh Uri, the singer in the recording attached below, has never heard this …
Hayrana Laih
… Karaite Jewish origins composed it in 1932 for the Egyptian singer of Jewish extraction, Leila (or Layla) Mourad … near the Karaite quarter. He was initially recognized as a singer and ‘ud player, but his wide popularity stem from … than five hundred), which he wrote for Egypt’s most popular singers of the time, such as Umm Kalthoum and Amal El-Atrash …
With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen
… basic characteristics of the music of the diwan songs. Each singer chose the stanzas that he wanted to sing, as well as …
Responsorial Singing
… is a singing performance style in which a solo singer (leader) and a group of singers (congregation, choir) sing alternately, in response …
The Tedeschian Community
… became Otolongi, Marburger or Marburg, became Morfogo, Singer became Sagra, Lausitz became Luzzati or Luzzato, and …
Society for Jewish Folk Music
… song is quite beautiful, with the violin accompanying the singer in a low register (did he really intend viola in this … song opens with a major seventh interval between viola and singer, giving the listener an unsettling sense of lack of tonal center. The singer continues with a line that is built with the …
Representations of Jews in the Musical Theater of the Habsburg Empire (1788-1807)
… common musical style of the time. By the mid-1790s Jewish singers and musicians were even performing their traditional …
Tipat Mazal (A Bit of Luck)
… Ze'ev Ravach. It is about Zuzu, a popular Jewish Moroccan singer and the hardships that he and his daughter Vivi …