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Seliha-Selihot
… golden age of the Jews in Spain during which many were written and their style developed. [1] Among the poets who wrote … to the Mishnah, the Selihot were first inserted after the sixth benediction (the forgiveness benediction) of the … (Tunisia) exclusively after the 16th century. The maintenance of this tradition is attested by the continuous …
Contrafactum
… A famous example of this can be found in the Diwan of the sixteenth century Paytan rabbi Israel Najara. Example of an … poem or piyyut. Another reason is that new texts were written faster than new melodies and therefore one melody would …
Kabalat Shabat
… of this custom comes from the Mekubalim of Safed of the sixteenth century, led by the Ari, who used to leave the … motifs would later appear in the piyyut 'Lekha Dodi' written by rabbi Shlomo Halevi Elkabats (see sound example ). … In modern day Israel, the ritual of Kabalat Shabat has extended beyond the religious communities and into secular …
In Ale Gasn\ Hey Hey Daloy Politsey
… than sung, but in this recording it is sung (including six verses). One may find many variants of this song as … probably due to its improvised form. The text of the song tends toward anarchism, even anarchist terror, especially in …
Moyshelekh Un Shloymelekh (part 1)
… Grininke Bymelekh” (Beneath the Little Green Trees) was written by Haim Nachman Bialik and composed by Platon G. … small unit of one bar, to a unit of two, four, eight and sixteen bars. The sixteenth bar ends with an open cadence on the dominant, …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… reason, twentieth century scholars, as the present writer, tended to assume that Shofet kol ha’aretz is a Sephardic … stanza of the poem. The poem consists of five stanzas. A sixth stanza was added later, apparently in Yemen, and is … kol ha’aretz appeared in printed prayers books of the sixteenth century, its pedigree in the liturgical practice …
Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… The opening unit consists of four verses and the stanzas of six verses; each verse consists of three sections of three, three and six syllables respectively. This traditional melody in makam … most of his life in his city of birth although he toured extensively. From 1925 to 1935/6 he lived in Alexandria, …
Mi-al har horev from the manuscripts of Obadiah the Proselyte
… the text 'The Eulogy of Moses,' which they believed was written either for the festival of Shavuot (Penticost) or for … Torah (Rejoicing of the Law). The text itself consists of six rhymed couplets set to a similar melody, ending with the … and 1150 A.D. The manuscript of Mi al-har horev consists of six strophes of the 'Eulogy of Moses' (lines 1-8 and most of …
Dos Fartribene Taybele (The Exiled Dove)
… of an online exhibit entitled: 'Abraham Goldfaden: A Centennial Tribute,' prepared by Eva Heinstein with help from … After Goldfaden passed, the play continued to run for six months with overwhelming success. This is the first page …
Fal
… ( sound example no.1 ). [1] This niggun is one of the ten niggunim that are ascribed to the founder of the Chabbad … (1745-1813). From the name of this niggun and from written sources as well, it can be incurred that from the first … lies between two to seven. Niggunim with many sections (six to seven) are common among Devekut (cleaving) niggunim …