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Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… is composed of two motifs which subdivide the long poetic verse of thirteen or more syllables. Avenary is able to … used for the closing masoretic accents of the Pentateuch verses as chanted on the High Holidays. The use of a … versions can be interpreted in two ways. First, the last verse of each stanza is always a quotation from the bible, …
Purim, Purim, Purim lanu
… followers. This popular song consists of quatrains of short verses with the rhyme pattern aaax, bbbx, cccx, etc. (known as the zejel pattern). The “x” verses consist of short biblical quotations all rhyming on “anu” and thus recalling the opening verses “Purim, Purim, Purim lanu / barukh asher bahar banu” …
Prayer for the state
… the first part is more lyrical and includes parallel verses while the second part tends more to prose. For more …
Mi-al har horev from the manuscripts of Obadiah the Proselyte
… by Isaiah 60:1 (lines 9-11), and a quotation of the verse from Isaiah in full (lines 12-13). The 'Eulogy of Moses' and the epilogue are neumated, and the verse from Isaiah is text-only. Adler's transcription …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… the Selihot for Yotzer of Yom Kippur with interpolations of verses in between each of the stanzas of our poem. More … is composed of two motifs which subdivide the long poetic verse of thirteen or more syllables. Avenary is able to … used for the closing masoretic accents of the Pentateuch verses as chanted on the High Holidays. The use of a …
Ner Haviv, Ner Na'eh
… in maqam Hijaz. It is simple, catchy and repeats with every verse without further development, except for the small … text by Sh. Shalom reveals the musical abyss separating diverse Jewish sectors cohabiting in very close proximity in …
Cantar de las Flores
… 'El Hai Sur Olamim.'. The text is structured in eight verses’ stanzas with a repeated two verses’ refrain. The stanzas have a common rhyme in verses 2, 4, 6, and 7 and the last verse always rhyming with …
In Ale Gasn\ Hey Hey Daloy Politsey
… Politsey'-'Hey hey down with the police'). The first two verses come from In Ale Gasn, a labor song which talks about … strike. It has a simple structure composed of a repeating verse with the same melody. The last two lines of each verse are sung twice. This song appears in two collections …
Eicha Yashva Badad
… Eicha. It has an acrostic, as all the first letters of each verse create a sequence of the Hebrew alphabet. The three … below are three versions of a reading of chapter 1, verses 1-3, in the Iraqi Nussach, sung by Baruch Abdallah … which arrived to the new State of Israel. In these verses, the poet laments the fall of Zion and the exile …
Musical Traditions of the Ethiopian Jews
… been intensively engaged in documenting and studying the diverse religious and secular musical repertoires of Ethiopian …