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Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… explained. The individual phrases can all be located in traditional liturgical poems and the lyrics, like many of … background but would be meaningful to secular Jews as well. Traditionally, the “Yom Gilah” – the day of rejoicing, …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern Ashkdnazi tradition, a tradition that developed in the areas that comprise today … six sets of melodies or “modes” in the Eastern Ashkenazi tradition of Biblical cantillation; I will characterize each …
Assaf Shelleg
… constituted composers’ perceptions of Jewish musical traditions as much as they facilitated their dialectical …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… is an order of prayers for the entire year according to the tradition of Worms. Before the poem “Melitz yosher ya’amod, … users of this manuscript there was an awareness that a traditional melody for Shofet kol ha’aretz was already in … for example in the Selihot according to the order and tradition of the Holy Congregation of Fiorda (Furth) that …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… developing out of the folk music and communal singing tradition of Jewish summer camps. Jewish youth first brought … hinting at the flexible rhythm characteristic of the traditional Ashkenazi prayer. In the descent to the tonic, … Sabbath, but we cannot ascertain whether Friedman had this traditional Ashkenazi modality in her mind when she composed …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… New Findings about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music … of the Haggadah has been maintained and transmitted by oral tradition as well as in written sources since the mid-19 th … texts of the Haggadah that were performed beforehand using traditional unmetered study or prayer formulae. A canon of …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… and with the departure of the additional “soul at rest,” traditionally granted to believers during the Sabbath. … is possible to distinguish between two branches of melodic traditions associated with this piyyut : the Ottoman/Iraqi traditions and the Maghrebi traditions from Algeria and …
Arba Otiyot
… by other authors, which are related to the Moroccan Jewish tradition. The concept and performance of this production …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… Eliran 1962 Kikhlot Yeini - Berry Sacharov - 2012 … Not all traditional Jewish holiday songs have survived in their … the CD, The Sword of the Dove: Purim Songs in the Sephardi Tradition (2000) by the Boston-based ensemble Voice of the … as well as by professional singers. A performance from oral tradition of Idelsohn’s second (“folk”) melody, sung by Ezra …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… Greeks, and Muslims, each developing their own cultural traditions and speaking in their own languages.” 5 The Jews … culture with them as they migrated, including literary traditions, musical forms and the Judeo-Spanish language, … of these forms and, similar to many other Sephardic traditions in the greater Mediterranean and Middle-Eastern …