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Volekh (LKT)

… The hazanim used to sing a Wulach , for example, for the verse Ana haShem in the Halel prayer, in contrast to the gay …

… ‘shemele.’ And we learn another thing from these two short verses, that it was a dance of the mothers-in-law and that … and musicologist Moshe Beregovski, who brings these two verses from Zunser’s song, learns from it that this was …

Sher

… musical phrases corresponding to the four lines of the verse). We know Jewish šers that have been written down in … The sher is mentioned in several published songs. The first verse of one othem, ‘Der nayer sher’ (‘The New Sher ‘), is …

Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies

… 1911 collection Example 6 Notation and 1st and 7th verses to the wedding song based on "E h ad mi yodea" found …

Sabbath Eve Qiddush by Haim Effendi

… before the festive meal. The text includes introductory verses (Genesis 2:1-3) the blessing over the wine and the …

Karev Yom

… detail). From the point of view of poetry, the reliance on verses from the Biblical ‘Song of Songs’ (three songs plus … a two-section niggun . Each section alternates between the verses in the poem. The first section is in minor and …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections

… that, in the Internet Age, circulates virally in diverse variants, dosages and combinations ad nauseam . [1] … you back to the land of Israel .” One can see in this diverse set of literary sources of inspiration for Hatikvah … ‘Shir Hatikvah’. In particular I was impressed by the last verses: ‘for the Jewish people our hope is finally come’. A …

Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed

… ). An additional theme, found in the recording’s fourth verse, is the power dynamics between urban and rural Jewish …

Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II

… ways in which Jewish repertoires were constructed by diverse agents in the modern period. One of the recordings of …

Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis

… of the mode. A shift of tonal center at the end of each verse in the High Holiday melodies, however, mirrors the … end of a text-phrase. The disjunctive te’amim divide each verse once, then again, and again—with up to four levels, depending on the length and complexity of the verse (Dresher 1994, 2013; Jacobson 2002 and 2013; Kogut …