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Moyshelekh Un Shloymelekh (part 2)

… by his experience as cantor. It is monotonic and sad, and sounds like a Jewish prayer. This is a main difference from …

Musical Traditions of the Ethiopian Jews

… complete and unedited field recordings are available at the Sound Archive of the National Library of Israel. The second …

Responsorial Singing

… as ' ḥ atanu lefanekha ra ḥ eim aleinu ' as refrains (see sound example no.1). Piyyutim of the Spanish school had …

Hay ram galeh

… . The rhyming scheme, aa-bbcb-aa ddcb, aa, eecb, aa and the sound of the rhymes are also identical in both the Arabic …

… alteration of their Ashkenazi surnames, which had a German sound and meaning, into Italian: Ettlingen became Otolongi, … which do not exist in Italian, is pronounced 'ng,' and sounds like it is produced from the palate as a nasal sound (the Jews of Amsterdam pronounce 'Ayin' in the same …

Kabalat Shabat

… 'Lekha Dodi' written by rabbi Shlomo Halevi Elkabats (see sound example ). The Kabalat Shabat ritual usually includes …

Heikhal Hanegina (the Hall of Music)

… who would enter the Heikhal Hanegina and pick out specific sounds to suit the mood that they were in. It is told that …

Musical instruments of the Mountain Jews

… keys for playing chords and bass notes like the accordion. Sound example . Balaban ('damkash' in Juhuri from 'dam' = … create special effects such as glissando and microtones. Sound example . Tar , the Caucasian version of the plucked … Caucasian tar is held, as in Turkey, against the chest. Sound example . Ghovol (called 'nagara' in Azeri) is a …

Society for Jewish Folk Music

… who sought to distance themselves from the traditional sounds of Diaspora music, which they viewed as expressing … at the JTS Library Recordings : Louis Danto at the Judaica Sound Achives Clara Rockmore performing Hebrew Melody on the …

Hora

… example below) for a pair of slow Hora and Freylekhs ( see sound exmple no.1 ) 2 . The Rumanian Hora was meant for … tune but also as a specific name for two dance tunes ( see sound example no.2 ). The Hora dance in Israel In the …