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Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Biblical texts in liturgical contexts—has attracted the attention of scholars ever since the day of the Renaissance … in Ashkenazi congregations around the world. There are six sets of melodies or “modes” in the Eastern Ashkenazi … reading) or “Torah trope” (the mode of Torah reading). The six sets of melodies are used as follows: (1) one for Torah …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… United States in the 1930s and 1940s. [1] What drew my attention to this song was its melody, one which I had learned … the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, was “Six Songs from the Jewish Homeland, Arranged for Mixed … generations. Indeed, of these 22 songs perhaps fix or six of them are still sung with any regularity in Zionist …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… third act of this operetta. It is hard to asses to what extent this is an original musical composition by Goldfaden or … (Andante), dramatic, and its second section is in 3/4 (tenuously kept in Rivesman’s adaptation as triplets in a 2/4 … The melody under discussion in this article is track number six. European group 'The Klezmer Alliance' recorded the song …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… place before the wedding ceremony. It is part of the extensive series of Yemenite Jewish wedding rituals, whose … the time, took her daughter with her to events that she attended. The family arrived in Israel in 1949 as part of … notes, pairs of eighth notes and pairs or groups of four sixteenth notes. The text-music relation in this song is …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… music and the re-writing of Naftali Herz Imber’s poem ‘Tikvatenu’ by its users, attempts at reconstructing the “true … in the Land of Israel. Except for [Leon] Igli, one of the six youngsters who were sent to Palestine in order to … Rishon Le-Tziyyon. [Here follows the detailed story of the six Russian youngsters that came to strengthen Baron …
Karev Yom
… it internationally. A lot has been (and will be) written about Bikel. Most obituaries stressed, with a … criticism towards Israel and its policies. It took him sixty years to make an emotional comeback to Israel, in … ‘Uvkhen vayehi be- h atzi ha-layla’ by Yannai (Palestine, sixth-seventh century CE). Originally, it belongs to the …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… “dealt with economic problems on the simplest level, often on the most personal terms. Some were grim and … transcription), alternating between one eighth note and two sixteenth notes. The melody of the following two lines rises … made up the robbery, using it as a pretext to bring attention to the rabbi’s poverty. “The more we become aware of …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… – the Jewish matriarchs; five – the five books of Moses; six – the books of the Mishna; seven – the days of the week; … – the days or circumcision; nine – the months of pregnancy; ten – the ten commandments; eleven – stars (from Joseph's … matriarchs of Israel (rather than just “the matriarchs”), six are the days of the week without the Sabbath (rather …
Sirba
… region of Moldavia and Wallachia. The sirba is based on a six-beat measure, consisting of cross to the right kick, … #1. Violinist Leon Ahl played this freylakh after an extended doina...The third and fourth sections have phrasing … more accurate to call this a sirba what with the continuous sixteenth note quality of this arrangment. It has some …
Sher
… of the verse). We know Jewish šers that have been written down in recent years. Many of these šers are in the … 2/4 and consists of several sections (usually two, less often three). We must again state, however, that in speaking … pairs... but my recollection is that at times there were sixteen people...” Rivkind 1960, p. 32 . “The sher is a …