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‘Le-El ‘Olam’ by Mordecai Dato: In search of a melody for an ancient Italian Hebrew poem
… of ‘Lekhah dodi’ it offers a very long exposition (230 five-verse stanzas) of salient moments in Jewish history … (1926), pp. 55-78. … [7] On these variants and on the diverse kabbalistic practices related to Qabbalat Shabbat and …
Enrico Fink
… own renditions, arrangements and compositions, into very diverse musical environments, from jazz to early music, from …
Sarah Harat
… henna parties in Jerusalem and beyond. Sarah was also well versed in the “Songs of the Land of Israel,” the modern …
Ya meḥayei alnafos (He who gives my spirit life)
… and the ninth in Hebrew. The soloist opens with the first verse, and from the second onwards the ensemble sings a … Arussi concludes with a repetition of the opening verse, followed by the blessing Vekulkhem berukhim. 7. Zadok Zubeiri sings verses of his own choice from stanzas 8 and 9. He begins the …
1. El atán, el atado y el ara (Et sha'arei ratzon)
… Hablad a mi madr e is one of the most emotionally-charged verses of this piyyut and for this reason it has been …
2. El merecimiento de Isaac (Im afes rova' ha-qen)
… in Smyrna in 1910. The poem consists of quatrains of rhymed verses. The elaborate traditional Sephardic melody of this …
3. The Little Sister (Aḥot qetanah)
… “quasi-muwashshah,” that is, a phrase repeated with all the verses of each stanza, followed by a contrasting phrase in … congregation) that is sung to the melody of the rest of the verses. The form is therefore: aab(soloist) A(congregation), …
Léibele Schwartz
… Hashem, from Book of Lamentations (Eicho), chapter 3, verse 22 (Alter, I.); B'nei Veischo, from Festivals Mussaf …
"Sha'ali yefefiyah" (Ask, lovely one)
… in the Yemenite repertoire. The first, second and last verses of four are sung here. All the hemistiches are sung … Yosef Ozeiri opens with the first two metric feet of the verse, and Zecharia Yitzhak replies with the two concluding … Yitzhak starts, and Yosef Ozeiri responds. The two final verses are repeated. Although the character of each song is …
Hus elohai mime'onkha (Have mercy O Lord, from Thy dwelling)
… is interlaced thus creating a double signature: the first verse of each stanza spell Hisdai , and the second verse renders Yehudah . Put differently, the even verses by themselves constitute Yehuda Halevi's poem. This …