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“Beyond All This Hides a Great Happiness”: Israeliness and Jewishness in the work of Mark Kopitman
… Kopytman, October Sun and Scattered Rhymes (both based on texts by Yehuda Amichai) express ambivalence so typical of …
Yiddish Folk Songs from Galicia
… and holidays 186-187: Miscellaneous songs Notes to the texts and to the melodies … 81 … 10 … Jerualem … Institute …
Adon Olam
… a popular hymn and is sung in many Para-liturgical contexts. In the Moroccan tradition, Adon Olam is sung at …
Akedah
… References to this narrative can be found in the religious texts and secular literature of Jewish communities around …
Cleaving tune (Niggun Dvekut)
… ascribe an aura of holiness to those tunes that are sung to texts holding mystical connotations, such as the Kabbalistic …
Zemirot
… comprising an ever expanding body of folk material.' The texts of the Zemirot describe the joys and rewards of … types of melodies: 1. Liturgical style recitation of the texts in a soloist manner. This technique was commonly used with texts of changing lengths and leaned heavily on Liturgical …
Diwan
… Jewish-Yemenite poet Shalem Shabazi began to appear, these texts became the chief component of the Diwan. The Diwan …
Mitsve Tants
… morning service ( sound example 4 ). The use of these texts symbolize the wedding as the Day of Judgment in the …
Dance tune (Niggun rikud)
… dance tunes can be divided into two groups: tunes with texts and tunes without texts. These tunes, compared to those of other genres (ie. … devekut niggunim , marches, valses), generally have fixed texts which are performed mostly at weddings and at …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… component of the Jerusalem-Sephardi tradition. Baqqashot texts in the Jerusalem-Sephardi Tradition The tradition of … in the Moroccan Baqqashot , as it affected even the texts of the piyutim , as some piyutim texts were modified in order to fit some of the Andalusian …