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A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… to a house without a roof, a sukkah without skhakh (traditional covering of the roof of the sukkah in the … begins with the introductory “khapt im, nempt im” line. The music to this opening section is more dense than in the rest … points out the connection between the song's theme and the musicality of the melody. In his view, the altered Dorian …
Karev Yom
… The interview was held at the initiative of the Israeli music connoisseur and collector Dudi Patimer. Speaking live … Sara Levi-Tanai and Yehiel Adaqi. Only one of the songs is “traditional” (no. 7: ‘Karev yom,’ analyzed below in detail). … song ‘Karev yom’. This is the only song belonging to the traditional Jewish repertoire, i.e. from the Diaspora …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… legislative design. Because of the “folk” origins of its music and the re-writing of Naftali Herz Imber’s poem … Hatikvah on canonic Hebrew texts. Imber, a Jew raised in a traditional family, certainly had access to the Hebrew … of the Finsbury Park Synagogue, in London, adapted the traditional Sephardic melody to Hatikva . The relation of …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… men's songs (including liturgical and para-liturgical music). The repertoire also deals with themes that reflect … comes after the festive dressing of the bride in her traditional regalia. In some places such as Rada'a, in … among other projects created artistic pieces inspired by traditional Yemenite Jewish dances. She later went on to …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… ‘Haynt iz purim brider’ is found as an opening for many traditional Purim songs. The phrase is usually used to accompany the common appeal for money at the end of a traditional Purimshpil with lyrics such as ‘Haynt iz purim, … had to write a new text (based as we pointed out on traditional formulae) shows that the folk tradition in …
Moritz Rosenhaupt
… major codifiers of the South German synagogue liturgy in musical notation and yet his name does not appear … For example Emanuel Kirschner, in a review/essay titled “Traditionaller Synagogengesang“ ( Gemeindeblatt der … by the archive of the city of Speyer, informs us that his music collection was destroyed during the conflagration. …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… remembered for his contributions to the liturgical music of American Reform Judaism and his work on Biblical … 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
… and below each word. However, the chant also has clear musical features, with a variety of scales, motives, … of melody and speech that Judit Frigyesi describes in traditional Eastern Ashkenazi contexts. As Frigyesi … changes are accepted in most communities, as are legitimate traditional cultural variations” (2002, 515). [30] Jacobson …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… of the opening stanza, is the refrain (the 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. Here we come to the end of …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… role in dramatically shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. … 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 …