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Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… a characteristic of the Ashkenazi prayer mode ( shteyger ) called Adonai Malakh . This shteyger is often used in the … as he was not available, Elton John was selected instead. What is interesting to note is that the chord progression …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… kol ha’aretz belongs to the medieval poetic Hebrew genre called pizmon that is characterized by a returning refrain … the poem on the first day of Selihot or on Yom Kippur. What is even more important from an historical perspective … cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon comprises what Avenary calls the “common” Ashkenazi melody (seventeen …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… stated goal of music analysis; as David Lewin puts it, “whatever the use to which the analysis is put (theoretical, … discourses that embody “musical corpora of the Jews with what can be called the ‘aura of antiquity’” (47). [3] See sections I.3 …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… – A. W. Binder (1895-1966) notated and arranged a song called (in his spelling) “Na-aleh L’artsenu – On to Our … circles in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s. [1] What drew my attention to this song was its melody, one … he wrote for that choir were perhaps his first efforts in what would be a life-long devotion to modern Hebrew song. In …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… ‘Shoshanat Yaakov’ by the Hassidim of the Modzhitz dynasty (called after Modrzyce, today one of the boroughs of the town … Song of the Month. We can now add new information to what we wrote previously about the popular Hassidic niggun … of Western Ukraine, formerly part of Galicia). Similar to what happened with many other Hassidic niggunim, Zionist …
Vivat
… dobri’, in Yiddish euphemistic language therefore one was called without cursing according to how much it costs: … perform his rhymes. With the last rhyme the mekhutonim are called out to dance with the bride, and they dance with her. … had a member who was also a badkhn, and he would complete what the badkhn had left out...the badkhn resumes and begins …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… The jealous mocked me 'you desire a black one' that's what they said It's true, her skin is as a black grape, like … them, but in this way it kind of makes it a bit of a joke. What are they doing? In the text they are turning the man … that same freedom that Avraham discusses, or what can be called a space of solidarity in which the female voice is …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… is the core of this essay. For Hatikvah both is and is not what you think. It does not derive from Smetana nor from a … of Rabbi Zvi Levontin. The hall of Rabbi Zvi Levontin was called the Rishon le-Tziyyon Hostel. There the youngsters of … on musical matters, I can say that I cannot estimate to what extent Igly’s melodies were fit [to the poems], to what …
Karev Yom
… relatively short period was for his future career. He recalled the names of every personality at the Cameri Theater, … must be subjected to a much more detailed analysis than what this short note can allow. Such an analysis must go … these songs to see how others would react, because I knew what he can do [in] live [performances]…I knew there was a …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… as Muslim, Latin, German, and English in order to establish what the essential parameters of the poetic structure are in … H asidim sing a version of “E h ad mi yodea” in Russian called “Ekh ti zimliak,” [ Example 2 ] meaning “Hey … is hardly a question but rather a statement: “Hey neighbor, what is with you, fool, let me tell you, let me calculate …