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Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew and Yiddish. Many of these texts touch directly upon the biblical story, while … in each source, as are the texts’ titles, indications for singers and text-underlays. (To avoid confusion, the term …
The Influence of Choral Elements on the Formation and Development of the Piyyût Genres (Hebrew)
… ' … In the Talmudic period the vocal participation of the congregation in the prayers … choir , at least in the form of a small group of proficient singers attached to the hazzan in order to complement and …
An Institute of Jewish Music in Jerusalem
… ' … We hereby appeal to all Jewish musicians and singers in Jerusalem and in Erez Israel, to the Sephardim and also the Ashkenazim, Jews of Yemen and likewise the Jews of …
Numerical Representation of Variants of Orally Transmitted Tunes
… tunes exist in many variants, which differ from each other musically, textually, and even in the language used. Sometimes the affinity of a variant with … is ever-changing, depending upon the place, time, and the singer; and even when it is notated, the musical signs and …
The Music and its Function in the Singing of the Qasīd anda birabbī dī kalaq (Hebrew)
… The Jewish Yemenite collection of poems - the Diwan - includes three main types of poems: sirim … first two poems is changed in a very particular way by the singer. Such a change occurs in the poem aAbda’ birabbi di …
Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition
… and leaving aside all technicalities, we encounter the fateful question if this kind of music making is at all in the nature of man, and therefore given to produce natural … may join the singing in some sort of sound combination. The singer may also accompany himself on some kind of stringed …
Bernardo Feuer
… Feuer was born on May 1 st , 1910 in Lemberg [Lviv], a city then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire but now in Ukraine. He was the … that Feuer fill in, with the approval of the other singers and especially of Feuer’s father. Feuer continued …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the passing of … tradition to a new generation of Israel-born Moroccan piyut singers. On many occasions, he carried out this enormous …
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 … Yannatou approaches this album not as a strictly Ladino singer but rather as an institutionally trained Greek vocal …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… 1962 Kikhlot Yeini - Berry Sacharov - 2012 … Track 14 from the 1998 JMRC recording Nights in Canaan, Early Songs of the Land of Israel (1882-1946) . … Not all traditional … water) officers I have left off singing, for the mouths of singers are filled with water, filled with water. Bread …