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Karaite Jews Musical Tradition
… many centuries, liturgical chants within the synagogue and outside of it have served as an important feature of the … and the change in the roles of the soloists – among the cantor and the special guests. The liturgy seems to be the oldest layer of Karaite sacred poetry; it only contains a few variations on a repertoire of …
Seliha-Selihot
… forgiveness for one's sins that appears in various prayers and services. The Seliha does not have a fixed form, and the … many were written and their style developed. [1] Among the poets who wrote Seliha' s are Sa'adyah Gaon, Gershom b. … according to the Tripolitanian tradition (performed by cantor Refael Hayyun; excerpt from the instructional CD …
Hay ram galeh
… many centuries. The zenith of this practice among Sephardic and Oriental Jews and the model for subsequent creativity is … into sacred Hebrew ones. Halevi is certainly not a trained poet but rather a performer thoroughly involved in the … famous paytan from Baghdad Gorgi Yair, who officiated as cantor in Jerusalem and from whom Havusha absorbed music of …
Hayrana Laih
… Score … Hayrana Laih is an Egyptian song that was and still is popular in the Arab world, but also has … written by Ahmed Rami (1892-1981), the popular Egyptian poet who was the main songwriter for Umm Kalthoum. Daoud … was a famous musician in Egypt. He was also a synagogue cantor and composer. [6] After recording her first song at …
Ner Haviv, Ner Na'eh
… an important twist: the identification of texts’ author and an additional musical version, very different from the … in 2009. In 1953, Abraham Abuganim (1908-2002), a Sephardic cantor, singer and 'ud player from Jerusalem, composed a … The writer of most of the texts of the medley was the poet Binyamin Avidany, who wrote texts for Abuganim as well …
Ki Hinneh Kahomer
… , with lyrics by Emanuel Harusi. Lyrics As clay in the hand of the potter, Who expands or contracts it at will, So … are said on Yom Kippur eve in the Ashkenazi nusach. The poet uses a metaphor comparing the people of Israel to clay … to the recitation of the 'thirteen midot' by the cantor and the congregation. The explanation was taken from …
Selihot according to Siftei renanot
… The materials are extracted from a presentation titled “Islands of Musical Memory: Lucena (Spain, 11th century)-Djerba … 1038-1089), a halakhic authority, Biblical commentator and poet, this Iberian order of selihot remained in continuous … according to the Tripolitanian tradition (performed by cantor Refael Hayyun; excerpt from the instructional CD …

Prayer for the state
… exile from Jerusalem to Babylon... Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into … of two distinct sections. The first section includes poetic devices that are rare in the traditional Hebrew … of Israel” The new prayer posed a dilemma for synagogue cantors regarding its musical performance. Since the Eastern …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… in two geographical areas: the area of Allepo in Syria, and subsequently in other Syrian and Palestinian … of piyyutim. Their repertoire included poems written by the poets of the so-called ‘Golden Age’ of Hebrew poetry in … of Aleppo to Palestine, among them some of the outstanding cantors and payytanim of that community. The Aleppo …

R. Joseph Shalom Gallego Author of Imrei No’am: A Cantor from Saloniki in Early 17th-century Amsterdam; with Annotations on the Poets, the Poems by Joseph Shalom Gallego and an Analytical Index by Tova Beeri
… Assufot … 34877 … 87-150 … … Salonica … Hazzanut,Hazzanim – Cantors,Cantors – Hazzanim,Chazzanut,Chazzan,Hazzan,Hazzanim,Cantors … … 1992 … Poems … Poets … Amsterdam … 17th (Seventeenth) Century … Saloniki … … on the Poets, the Poems by Joseph Shalom Gallego and an Analytical Index by Tova Beeri …