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Iyr (1)
… The Iyr , also knownin Juhuri as Uylov or Uylomish and in the Kabardin dialect as Ghiyr or Ghibzi, is a genre found … These are long, complex compositions usually consisting of three parts. The opening is a free polyphonic introductory …
Räng Ovshori
… of four or eight measures, each one repeated several times. The Ovshori is a popular dance from southern Daghestan. Similar to the Täräkämä, the Ovshori also has several melodies, each having two or three different sections, repeated as many times as required …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… The Jewish liturgy was never a sealed and unified corpus. … and pertinence for different generations relied on the potential of the practitioners to embellish the basic … or by whom is unknown. Interestingly however, the first three out of our six verses (Psalms 4:2; 5:2-3) appear as an …
Haim Louk
… to a family originally from Mogador ( Essaouira ). At the age of four, he lost his father, and his mother supported the family by working as a … became Louk's mentor. Louk would accompany him for about three years, reading Jewish philosophical texts to Buzaglo, …
"Betzet ḥatan be'et qiddush" (When the groom goes out at the time of qiddush)
… Wedding zaffa in the form of a girdle poem with two stanzas and two … Zadok Zubeiri sings and accompanies himself with a tin pan. The melody has three motifs: verses 1-4 and 7-8 are sung to the first, …
"Le-fellaḥ ha-rimon" (To a segment of the pomegranate)
… Wedding zaffa in the form of a girdle poem by Yehuda Halevi: the groom praises his wife's beauty, and tells of the pangs … children the closing hemistich. In each stanza the first three verses are sung to one motif, and the fourth verse to …
"Ashira la'ahuv ve-ha-shir lo asdir - Halleluya" (I will sing to my love, and regulate the song - Hallelujah)
… Wedding ḥaduyya . The first letter of the second word of each verse is in alphabetical order. … respond. They sing the verses that begin with the first three letters of the alphabet to the ḥaduyya melody, …
"Ayumah be-har hamor" (The Beloved on the mountain of myrrh)
… , containing six stanzas in Hebrew and Arabic alternately. The structure of each stanza is: four verses of two hemistiches, three verses in the form of a Tawshih and two verses of two hemistiches …
"Saperi tama temima" (Tell, pure and innocent)
… Girdle poem by Se'adia ben Amram, signed with the author's full name. Written in Hebrew, apart from the third and fourth stanzas, which are in Arabic. It is an … 10. Baruch Yefet sings stanzas 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 to three melodies: the basic scheme of the opening melody is …
Léibele Schwartz
… Kirzner. He began his music studies as a child with his father, Yaakov, who was a cantor. He relocated to Argentine in 1938 with his mother Ana, his father and his twin sisters Clara and Frida. … went to Johannesburg, South Africa where he performed for three years at the Standton Shul, aka Beth Hamedrash Hagadol …