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Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… … In 1926, in “New Palestinean [sic] Folk Songs” – one of the earliest Zionist songbooks published in … “children” of some older melody – and did that melody have words, or was it perhaps a wordless dance niggun? While …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… … Israel … Background Qad Zawajunī is a form of 'play song” or singing game commonly performed among the Jewish communities of central and southern Yemen. It is … In this context, Madar equates the repetitions of the words of the song by the listeners/participants as a type of …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… to a barrage of factual and fictional information that, in the Internet Age, circulates virally in diverse variants, … and reproducers of these stories than they do about the song’s actual historical past. Untangling these stories … introduced Shuv to Cantor Friedland who wrote down the words and music of Hatikvah . Hatikvah was thereafter …
Karev Yom
… I am still living the life of those times… Theodore Bikel On October 2, … commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after World War II. … the original cover with a photograph. [4] In Holzman’s words: “[The new cover] pictured a kibbutz girl in the …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… This article shows the crystallization of the prayer and singing style known as … use of maqam . The use of maqam for liturgical poetry and song was based throughout the 17 th century on extensive … of the new Sephardic generation know the meaning of the words ‘ Noam Sephardi ’ … not only has the ‘ noam ’ [grace] …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… 1911.pdf Example 6 Notation and 1st and 7th verses to the wedding song based on "E h ad mi yodea" found in I.L. Cahan's 1957 … and “Addir hu,” was published in Hebrew (with a few Aramaic words) along with a translation into Yiddish. One defining …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… fuer Juedische Volksmusik, 1912, p. 6. In this publication the melody was arranged for soprano and two altos. Example 3 … Example 8 Harry Coopersmith, editor, Little Books of Jewish Songs: Purim , Chicago: Board of Jewish Education, 1928. … from the second part of “ H ag Purim” (sung to the words 'hava nar'isha rash rash rash'). In his article about …
Sher
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT compiles … details, for example, the wedding description in Ettinger’s song ‘Di lixt.’ Various dances are mentioned in all these … Jewish folk song that describes these dances, the words are as follows: Twenty kopeks is the price of the …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… In 1958, on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for … K. Glazunov and Nikolai A. Rimsky-Korsakov. In other words, it is about the brief triumph of liberal political … for Society for Jewish Folk Music, 'Evening of Jewish Folk Song,' Sunday, April 12, 1909, with the participation of Iu. …
Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT compiles … droshe-geshank-oyfshpiln and other entertainment songs...” Fater 1985, pp. 60-61 . “Mitzvah Dance ( Mitsve … has no specific function and may be sung -- always without words -- for any guests invited to dance. The other five …