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Idelsohn: The Founder and Builder of the Science of Jewish Music – A Creator of Jewish Song
… she met her future husband, then a rabbinic student at the Hebrew Union College. They were married in 1912 upon their … towards traditional Jewish observances, the Hebrew language, and the idea Of Jewish peoplehood' in … of the Science of Jewish Music – A Creator of Jewish Song … A. Irma Cohon …
Yemenite Qasīd Songs (Hebrew)
… other types in content and in language. The poems are folk songs, light, entertaining, and amusing in content. They are … so that the simpler people and the women, who did not know Hebrew very well, could understand them. Those who copied … did not assign a separate section to it, so that qasid songs are scattered throughout the manuscript. It seems that …
Salamone Rossi as a Composer of "Hebrew" Music
… Salamone Rossi? why the quotation marks around the word 'Hebrew'? Published in 1622/23, Rossi's collection of Hebrew 'Songs,' viz., 'The Songs of Solomon,' marks a milestone in the history of …
The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
… in a very specific style. The category of synagogue song we shall illustrate and analyse may be called a … Cantors … 9433 … Cantorials … Hazzanim - Cantors … Hebrew cantillation … Synagogue music … Western Ashkenaz … …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… 14 from the 1998 JMRC recording Nights in Canaan, Early Songs of the Land of Israel (1882-1946) . … Not all traditional Jewish holiday songs have survived in their original performance context or with their melodies of old. The Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini, which used to be performed in …
Arba Otiyot
… and the members of the rabbinical dynasty he founded. The songs have been codified in a compendium titled Yagel Yaacov … developed by the Piyut Ensemble of the Ben-Zvi Institute, a Hebrew University institution dedicated to the research of … Disk … Contemporary Jewish Music … Sacred Hebrew Songs from the Saharan Maghreb … Piyyutim … Choral, Choral …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… onle of the last great poets of the Spanish 'Golden Age' of Hebrew poetry. Ibn Ezra was born in Tudela, Spain in 1089 … during the Sabbath. Therefore, a prominent motif in these songs is the figure of Elijah the Prophet (Eliyahu), whose … version (which means primarily Baghdadi) appears among songs for the Sabbath, the Sephardic version is included in …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… texts grew exponentially through time (see for example our Song of the Month archive). The singing of serial folksongs added at the end of the seder is a late medieval … Ashkenazi communities, a paraphrase in Yiddish followed the Hebrew text phrase by phrase, a common learning technique in …
Avi Bar-Eitan
… and lecturer. He received his Ph.D. in musicology at the Hebrew University, and his M.A. and M.Mus degrees and … gray area between the art, folk, and popular in the Israeli song.” His research interests span musicology and … music of Ashkenaz and Sepharad; musical analysis of Israeli song; and the musical style of Yair Rosenblum. Dr. Bar-Eitan …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Lynn Friedman (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an important role in … Friedman’s compositional corpus includes music for the Hebrew liturgy, English translations and interpretations of liturgical and religious Jewish themes, educational songs for children, community and identity-building songs …