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Sarah Harat
… Sana'a in 1922 to Abraham Khobara and Yonah (Khamama) from the Beit Halevi family. In 1930, when she was eight years … Palestine, settling in Sha’arei Pinah, an area adjacent to the Nahalat Zvi neighborhood in Jerusalem. The family rented … and composed for the band Tzliley HaKerem, for the Yemenite singer Avner Gadasi and more. [ 2 ] We would like to thank …
Vehalleluya (And Hallelujah)
… tones, with an interval of a major second between them. The singers go freely from one recitation tone to the other. …
"Barek brik alḥama" (The lightning of our protection shone forth)
… A poem in Arabic by Yosef ben Israel, signed Ben Israel . The poem has eight stanzas, cach of which contains four … verses of two hemistiches, a tawshiḥ of three verses and another two verses of two hemistiches. The poem is an … two men danced to the music of the shira . The dancers and singers spurred each other on, and coordinated the singing …
"Shema ha'el ‘aneni batefillah" (Hear O Lord, answer my prayer)
… Nashid for the Sabbath by Shlomo ben Sa'id, signed Shlomo . It serves as a sort of prologue to the reading of the psalms. It is usually sung during the … and children who take part in the event join the adult singers from time to time. The soloist opens, and from the …
"Shema ha'el ‘aneni batefillah" (Hear O Lord, answer my prayer)
… Nashid for the Sabbath by Shlomo ben Sa'id, signed Shlomo . It serves as a sort of prologue to the reading of the psalms. It is usually sung during the … Every hemistich is repeated in a responsorial manner: one singer sings the first foot (----), while the second …
Halleluya (Hallelujah)
… A girdle poem in honor of the Sabbath, by Seʼadia , signed Se'adia. This is one of the most popular Sabbath songs. Some sing it on the Sabbath … to sing the hallel in parallel intervals, but here the singers precede it and lead on to it after the blessing …
"Shalom levo shabbat" (Greetings on the coming of the Sabbath)
… A girdle poem in honor of the Sabbath, by Seʼadia , signed Se'adia. This is one of the most popular Sabbath songs. Some sing it on the Sabbath … to sing the hallel in parallel intervals, but here the singers precede it and lead on to it after the blessing …
"Ahuv libi semaḥ bemitzvot nikhtevu" (My beloved, be happy)
… a scrupulously traditional style that few Yemenite Jewish singers observe today: a combination of melodies, with opening and conclusion in the same melody, which is expanded at the end. Aharon Cohen and the Kiryat Ono men's ensemble are …
A Selection of Judeo-Spanish Songs
… Although he was a cantor, Abraham Beniso was also a trained singer. Among his extra-synagogue performances, he recorded … of few songs in Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) following the practices of several of his predecessors and contemporaries, most notable the London Spanish-Portuguese hazzan the Reverend Eliezer …
Las de la novia (Los dos bandos)
… This is a serial song, mockingly comparing the guests from the groom’s family with those from the bride’s in a poetical … much better (or ‘otherwise,’ according to which side the singers belong). Those of the bride’s side eat milk …