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Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… into several minhagim (“customs” or “traditions”) once the printing press started to produce prayer books in … identity. In fact, they comprise a refrain dividing the song into “strophes,” a peculiar feature discussed widely in … and by their serial growth from five, to six and to seven words. When exactly these verses entered the mahzor …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis collection . … suspect this “tuneful if unremarkable” melody (in Karnes’s words) might be related to the melody by which Akara …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… 2 … 712 … “Bore ‘ad ana” (“Creator until when?”) is one of the most ubiquitous qinot (dirges) in the order of prayers … and North African versions in the article entitled “Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardic Melodies … all the sung versions of this qinah is the repetition of words in specific patterns. Moreover, a refrain is generated …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… … 714 … In his pioneer publication Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, … structure [that] gives it the stamp of the common European song.” Melody emerges in this case from the poetic form and meter of the text. In his words, “the symmetrical bars are the musical counterpart of …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… in a car, driving on a mountain road that winds down along the Lebanese coastline, overlooking the Mediterranean … and poetic texts with melodies from pre-existing popular songs, a practice with roots in the sixteenth century that … Yom Odeh ” as a remnant of a time in which, to borrow the words of literary scholar Lital Levy, “the incorporation of …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew … of the Binding of Isaac and was also used for additional songs in Hebrew and Yiddish, the content of which relates to … rhyming pattern aabb, ccdd, etc. Each line begins with the words foter kenig (O Father, King), referencing the Hebrew …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… 1962 Kikhlot Yeini - Berry Sacharov - 2012 … Track 14 from the 1998 JMRC recording Nights in Canaan, Early Songs of the Land of Israel (1882-1946) . … Not all … with Jeremiah 35:4). The sonic interplay between the words yeini (my wine) / ‘eyni (my eyes) is the basis of the …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… Peleg, Sonja Wiedemann English translation: Courtney Blue The piyyut “Eli Eliyahu” is attributed to Rabbi Abraham Ibn … during the Sabbath. Therefore, a prominent motif in these songs is the figure of Elijah the Prophet (Eliyahu), whose … priority than the syntactic and semantic structure of the words, as the division into lines and units creates an …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Debbie Friedman, the Composer Deborah Lynn Friedman (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an important role in … Koleinu by other composers The combination of the moving words and the inclusion of this prayer in High Holy Day …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, and other Biblical … read on Purim; and (6) one for the festive megillot —Song of Songs, Ruth, and Ecclesiastes—read on Passover, … there are brief two-note melismas at the end of many words and an extended melisma on “isra-el.” Your browser …