(247 results found)
Prayer for the state
… Synagogue … Liturgical Innovation in a Nation-State: The Music of the “Prayer for the Well-being of the State of … first section includes poetic devices that are rare in the traditional Hebrew prayers of antiquity, such as a large … musical patterns that has no precise parallel in the traditional repertoire. Since no official musical version …
Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… of three, three and six syllables respectively. This traditional melody in makam U'ak is widespread among … singing other liturgical texts. The melody consists of two musical phrases repeated according to the aaba scheme. … in the history of the Judeo-Spanish speaking Jews. The old traditional Ottoman Jewish community ruled by rabbinical …
Hanukkah Blessings
… usually performed by the head of the household according to traditional patterns. Yet, when the lighting of the candles occurred in community contexts, special musical settings were arranged. Our Song of the Month … to be an extremely stylized and rhythmicized version of the traditional Ashkenazi blessings. Between the melodies the …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… line of the opening stanza, is the refrain (same words and music are repeated) and x, the last line of the rest of the … users of this manuscript there was an awareness that a traditional melody for Shofet kol ha’aretz was already in … a precondition for the acceptance of a melody into the traditional Ashkenazi repertoire. Up to here are the …
Ner Haviv, Ner Na'eh
… the identification of texts’ author and an additional musical version, very different from the one we released … the light of the candle'). The song is an example of the traditional genre of popular poems which address the hope … as Abuganim set Sh. Shalom’s poem to a melody following a traditional Arabic pattern, composer Yehoyachin …
Freylekhs
… term that, in this case, signifies a musical genre. It seems that Freylekhs tunes comprised the core of the traditional Klezmer repertoire in Eastern Europe, and were … and the Skutchne. Feldman also views the Freylekhs as a musical genre, however to define these tunes as a musical …
Society for Jewish Folk Music
… on the eve of the Russian Orthodox Easter, two Russian musicians met in an encounter that was to have impacts on … quoted above, “ Shlof Majn Kind ”, is an arrangement of a traditional lullaby. It is one of the few songs for viola … ich volt gehat ” (If I had the riches of a king) is another traditional lullaby. “All the wealth of the Kaiser’s …
Hora
… r Moshe (Musa) Berlin (b. 1937), who took his tunes from musical scores and records published in the U.S., used the term Rumanian Hora (see musical example below) for a pair of slow Hora and Freylekhs … in Israel, who until then danced in a circle, in simple traditional marches, gradually accepted the Hora dance. …
Representations of Jews in the Musical Theater of the Habsburg Empire (1788-1807)
… literature and theater has not identified any musical parallels to contemporary representations of Jews in … David Buch’s new study offers the earliest identifiable musical depictions of Jews in European theater (specifically … Jewish singers and musicians were even performing their traditional music on stages in Vienna and Budapest. Yet, as …
A Pintale Id
… features both Yiddish songs and Tangos and Milongas, two traditional Argentinean musical styles. Many of the songs and themes of the play …