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Arba Otiyot
… This CD is dedicated to piyutim (sung sacred poetry) of the Jews of the Tafilalt (Berb. Tāfīlālt) region, in particular to the … … Piyyut … Piyyutim … Morocco … Moroccan … Contemporary Israeli Music … Israeli Choirs … Choirs … Choral music … …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… Peleg, Sonja Wiedemann English translation: Courtney Blue The piyyut “Eli Eliyahu” is attributed to Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra, considered onle of the last great poets of the Spanish 'Golden Age' of Hebrew … the piyyut has been set to new tunes by contemporary Israeli composers. The Ottoman/Iraqi Tradition A. Z. …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… New Findings about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a performing stage, even though major …
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 Artist’s Diploma from the Hebrew University and the Jerusalem Academy of Music and … of “the gray area between the art, folk, and popular in the Israeli song.” His research interests span musicology and …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… 4 Baer 1 Baer 2 Baer 3 Shofet De Sola … דוד צובירי … The piyyut Shofet kol ha’aretz (‘Judge of all the Universe’) is a centerpiece of the morning service for … Sammlung der gottesdienstlichen Gesänge und Recitative der Israeliten nach polnischen, deutschen (aschk'nasischen) und …
Assaf Shelleg
… Musicologist Assaf Shelleg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) studies modern and … interest in art music written by and about Jews. Shelleg is the author of the award-winning book Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History (Oxford University Press, 2014), in addition …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, and other Biblical texts in liturgical contexts—has attracted the … ending with F going down to C does not seem to be common in Israeli Ashkenazi communities; see Ne’eman 2012, 73. The …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… … In 1926, in “New Palestinean [sic] Folk Songs” – one of the earliest Zionist songbooks published in America – A. W. … that this is a Yemenite melody and gives no attribution for the text. In many ways, this song is unremarkable. It stays … one social circle or another and later entered the canon of Israeli songs but most of them, such as this song, …
Moritz Rosenhaupt
… Moritz/Moses Rosenhaput was born (see Fränkel 1921) in the town of Jesberg near Kassel on March 14, 1841. However the Jewish Encyclopedia (1906) places his birth place in … titled “Traditionaller Synagogengesang“ ( Gemeindeblatt der Israelitischen Gemeinde Frankfurt am Main , Heft 3 (November …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… In the last Song of the Month we introduced the song for Purim ‘Haint Iz Purim, … melodies, a tradition that was maintained in the modern Israeli repertoire of Purim songs, especially for children. …