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Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… … Israel … Background Qad Zawajunī is a form of 'play song” or singing game commonly performed among the Jewish … of this female Jewish repertoire is manifested in the songs' themes, such as the internal spiritual world of the … with God, themes that are attributed mainly to Jewish men's songs (including liturgical and para-liturgical music). The …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… and reproducers of these stories than they do about the song’s actual historical past. Untangling these stories … we note that this is a rare case of bottom-up creativity. A song made its way to consecration by a state that adopted it … scholars cited two nineteenth-century patriotic German songs, certainly known to German-speaking Jews, as a …
Karev Yom
… commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after World War II. The Song of the Month is dedicated to Bikel’s recording of ‘Karev yom,’ one of the many Hebrew songs that Bikel performed, recorded and was instrumental in …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… This song of the month is a humorous Yiddish song about a robbery. It is also known as “Bay Mein Rebbe iz … melody. 'A Gneyve' is part of a large repertoire of Yiddish songs addressing the hardships of a poverty ridden life that …
And Now We're All Brothers: Singing In Yiddish In Contemporary North America
… Critical survey of the contemporary practice of Yiddish song in America, with emphasis on its relation to past …
Zemerl (LKT)
… “...a zemerl [pl. zmires ]...is a religious folk song in Hebrew or Aramaic sung on the Sabbath. Bearing a … sung to a variety of tunes, as a zemerl (religious folk song).” Schlesinger, Alpert, Rubin 1989 . ( Recording …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… use of maqam . The use of maqam for liturgical poetry and song was based throughout the 17 th century on extensive … were usually adaptations of popular Arabic and Turkish songs. The old style Ottoman-Jewish musical tradition was … night of Shabbat, all the community members sing pleasant songs… most of the songs and prayers were written by the …
Vals (LKT)
… now the folkdance has had been accompanied by singing and song; and not only to [modern couple dances such as] the polka did people improvise and sing songs, but also to the polonaise , quadrille , waltz , … as freylekhs, volekhls, shers, kozakl, polke ,... The dance-song is a collective folk-expression which derived from the …
Tora und Shira: Untersuchungen zur Musikauffassung des rabbinischen Judentums
… conceptions of music through texts addressing the Biblical Song of the Sea (Exodus 15) … 1 … 33944 … Bern … P:Lang … … …
Jüdische Volksmusik: Eine mitteleuropäische Geistesgeschichte
… and folklorists, mostly of introductions to Jewish folk song collections, arranged by topics and chronologically. … development of the modern conceptualization of Jewish folksongs in Central European learned circles of musicians and …