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Society for Jewish Folk Music
… be no Klezmer revival as it is flourishing today. The Hebrew National Style While each of the composers of the new … ensembles One of the outstanding forms of the group was the song for voice, piano and either violin or viola. The … the classical and romantic composers. Aside from the two songs opus 91 by Brahms for viola, contralto and piano, the …
Seliha-Selihot
… The word Seliha (plural- Selihot ) means forgiveness in Hebrew. In the singular form Seliha means a piyut of … Lehanim , each of which is adapted to various different songs. For further reading about Siftei Renanot , see here . … … Ezri Yavo from Siftei Renanot (see more details in Song of the Month August 2008 ).One of the most assiduously …
Hay ram galeh
… . H ay Ram Galeh is a contrafactum of the modern Egyptian song Hayrana Laih by Daoud Hosni that featured in our previous Song of the Month. Hay ram galeh was written by Nissim ben … tradition of turning secular Arabic songs into sacred Hebrew ones. Halevi is certainly not a trained poet but …
With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen
… characteristic of the diwan repertoire. Some of the songs are heard in a series of different performances, in … on the basic characteristics of the music of the diwan songs. Each singer chose the stanzas that he wanted to sing, … pp.) … Jerusalem, Israel … Jewish Music Research Centre, Hebrew University of Jerusalem … Anthology of Music …
Cute Boy, Charming Girl
… Cute Boy, Charming Girl: Children’s Songs of the Modern Hebrew Nation(1882-1948) presents Hebrew songs written for and sung by Jewish children in pre-state …
Ahavat ‘Olamim
… in life-cycle rituals, and in non-liturgical religious songs for the early morning vigils, called Shirat … … Jerusalem, Israel … Jewish Music Research Centre, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem … Contemporary Jewish Music … Andalusian Hebrew Song from the Maghreb to Jerusalem … Piyyutim … 3 … 2012 … …
Hayrana Laih
… Score … Hayrana Laih is an Egyptian song that was and still is popular in the Arab world, but … (1892-1981), the popular Egyptian poet who was the main songwriter for Umm Kalthoum. Daoud Hosni (1870-1937), an … Leila (or Layla) Mourad (1918-1995). Daoud Hosni (whose Hebrew name was David Khadr Hayyim Halevy or David Hayyim …
Eicha Yashva Badad
… Y62, Y63. … 724 … In honor of Tish'a Be'av, this month’s Song of the Month is Eicha Yashva Badad lament. Megilat … the first letters of each verse create a sequence of the Hebrew alphabet. The three recordings attached below are … the writer of the Megilat Eicha to be the prophet Jeremiah. Hebrew lyrics א איכה ישבה בדד, העיר רבתי עם--הייתה, …
Yechidi Laderech Li Etse'a
… odin ja na dorogu' (Alone I set out on the road). The song travelled all the way from Russia to Israel during the … feel themselves as the lonely traveler of this romantic song. Lermontov's Alone I set out on the road was translated … no exception, as many Russian songs were translated into Hebrew. In most cases, the melodies of these songs were …
Moyshelekh Un Shloymelekh (part 2)
… 732 … Unter di Poylishe Grininke Beymelekh Our previous 'Song of the Month,' Unter di grininke beymelekh , developed … in which the lyrics were modified. One example is a song commemorating victims of a pogrom, which opens: … a Polish-born cantor-composer and faculty member at the Hebrew Union College. It was published in New York (by …