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Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean
… The album includes folksongs in Ladino that Sephardic Jews used to sing in events … performed by the best folksingers, mostly women, from the Sephardic communities of Turkey and the Balkan who were …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… On the eve of Passover, our Song of the Month for April 2014 is dedicated to H ad Gadya … to the custom of Provence, apparently written by a Sephardic Jew residing in Provence in the fifteenth century. … Only later the song was introduced to the traditions of the Sephardic and Oriental Jews and was translated into the …
Had Gadya
… also found at the end of the Haggadah, it is a cumulative song, with each verse adding another motif to the story. It … to the custom of Provence, apparently written by a Sephardic Jew residing in Provence in the fifteenth century. … Only later the song was introduced to the traditions of the Sephardic and Oriental Jews and was translated into the …
Atah Ehad
… zemer for the Sabbath, a Hassidic niggun and a Yiddish folksong. In addition, some Ashkenazi tunes were reincarnated as Zionist songs, becoming Israeli folk songs and folk dances in both … strophe from the piyyut “El mistater beshafrir h eviyon,” a Sephardic kabbalistic poem by R. Abraham Maimon (late …
Cantiga - cantica - cantar - canción
… A unique genre in the Sephardic Jews musical tradition. Lyric songs, structured mostly as stanzas of four verses in … the nuptial repertoire accompanying the ceremonies of the Sephardic wedding. Cantigas show great versatility of texts …
Coplas - Complas
… A unique genre in the Sephardic Jews musical tradition.. Strophic poems, with … impact of historical, social and political events on the Sephardic communities. Coplas are sung with a strophic … For a detailed analysis and description of this Copla, see Song of the Month . Musical Transcription … 676 … 9617 … …
Romanza - Romance
… A unique genre in the Sephardic Jews musical tradition. A narrative poem, a … verses is assonant and is maintained throughout the whole song. The music divides this series of rhyming verses (that … slight variations, throughout the text. The themes of the Sephardic romances reflect the Hispanic heritage, carried …
Unataneh Tokef
… Hashita. The film leads up to the first performance of the song, sung by Hanoch Albalak, by interviewing members of the … with Albalak and explaining to him different aspects of the song to take into consideration when he performs it. One … example is that the song's melody has both Ashkenazi and Sephardic influences and that Albalak should imagine himself …
Fiestaremos! Judy Frankel and the Sephardic Music Tradition
… figure in the preservation and the performance of the Sephardic folksong. More information can be found at the National Center … Judeo-Spanish - Ladino … Fiestaremos! Judy Frankel and the Sephardic Music Tradition …
Brakha Tzefira
… neighborhood in Jerusalem, where most of the residents were Sephardic Jews from Salonika. Tzefira had unpleasant … one neighborhhod to the next, Brakha was attracted to the songs she heard. The synagogue played a central role in the … the liturgy, absorbing piyutim and more. Like many girls of Sephardic families, Tzefira attended a school in the old …