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Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… in a car, driving on a mountain road that winds down along the Lebanese coastline, overlooking the Mediterranean seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a … and Sukkot (Tabernacles), constitutes one of the “Three Pilgrim Festivals” in Judaism. While a printed version …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… songs for Passover offers us a rich field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, when new forms of expressing Jewishness … other modern recorded versions, generally include only the three stanzas that are hereby presented. The different …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew and Yiddish. Many of these texts touch directly upon the biblical story, while … Within the corpus of early modern Yiddish literature, three seventeenth-century songs include an instruction that …
The Musical Realization of Biblical Cantillation Symbols (te‘amîm) in the Jewish Yemenite Tradition
… This study concentrates on the Pentateuch, recited by the Yemenites in three different social and religious contexts: (a) the …
Collectanea Concerning Music in the Hebrew Manuscript London, British Library, Or. 10878 (Hebrew)
… Three fragments of musical theory and of speculations on … music, collected by an anonymous Jewish scribe (probably Northern Italy, 15th century), are preserved on fol. 5a of the … sentence asserting the preeminence of music is followed by three 'maxims of the philosophers on music' similar to those …
Music in the Testament of Job
… 'The Testament of Job' is one of the Greek-language pseudepigrapha belonging to the same genre as the twelve patriarchal testaments. It has come down to us primarily in three manuscripts (their sigla are given in parentheses): …
Three Musical Ceremonies for Hôšanā Rabbah in the Jewish Community of Casale Monferrato (1732, 1733, 1735) (Hebrew)
… ' … Our main source of information as regards the musical events at the Jewish community of Casale Monferrato during the years … the Lenin State Library in Moscow. The manuscript contains three musical scores for ceremonies on hos'ana rabbah . …
The Music and its Function in the Singing of the Qasīd anda birabbī dī kalaq (Hebrew)
… The Jewish Yemenite collection of poems - the Diwan - includes three main types of poems: sirim (or, in Arabic: niswad …
Salamone Rossi as a Composer of "Hebrew" Music
… questions should be raised: why Salamone Rossi? why the quotation marks around the word 'Hebrew'? Published in 1622/23, Rossi's collection … of art music. They were written for various combinations of three to eight voices and intended for use 'on all sacred …
The Priestly Blessing in the Ashkenazi Synagogue: Ritual and Chant
… If one had to select the most impressive ceremony in the traditional synagogue, it is quite certain that the … choice would fall on the ritual of birkat kohanim , the threefold priestly blessing (henceforth PB). The ceremony …