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Honga (LKT)
… A Moldavian line dance in 2/4 time. Also called honge and ange.” Alpert 1996b, p. 58 . “The honga … on the Kandel’s Orchestra 1925 recording [Polish style]... Whatever sort of dance a honga is, its musical form is very …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… on September 17, the date of St. Lambert, and therefore called ‘Lambertuslied’ (see F. Nork, Festkalender, … Gadya? Spring isn’t here and Passover hasn’t arrived. And what has changed? What changed? This year, I changed. On all nights, all …
Andalusian Nuba
… below, the core of the Nuba is medleys of composed poems. What is the Nuba? The Nuba is a multi movement work (similar … that were based on 24 modes (or musical scales) that are called Tabai'a (Tab'a in the singular), one for each hour of … poet Muhammad Al-Haik, who, in the 18 th century, collected whatever repertoire remained in the memories of the poets …
Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
… by study-tunes, and it was needed to be determined what the acceptable and 'kosher' alternative was. As it … the melodies was done in an attempt to answer the question 'what is the Yiddish folksong?' Scholars still do not agree … twelve contain Jewish themes. The author of the manuscript called the songs 'folksongs.' The question whether the …
‘I’m Sorry, It’s Yom Kippur’: Atonement through Punk (and Traditional Jewish Music)
… Zine (an independently written and distributed publication) called TimTum in which he discusses being both Jewish and … – I am wrong – I don't fit. And I think a lot of people, whatever their gender presentation, don't fit either, they … that diabolical 'sin' idea, but in 2010 I thought, 'Okay, what if I take all the ‘fire and sword and beast’ of this …
Brakha Tzefira
… music' is problematic to say the least. It comes to signify what is sometimes called 'classical music' or 'concert music.' It is used here …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… unanticipated new findings. These findings show to what extent the availability of digital resources have … 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 …
Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… religious music, Edirne, where a local Jewish choir called Maftirim performed its ancient repertoire of Ottoman … music on Sabbath mornings and afternoons at the synagogue called Portugal. But Haim was not a full-time cantor who recorded some songs in Ladino. He moved into what we may today call the “entertainment industry”, …
Alexander Krein's Kaddish, op.23,manuscript by the Soviet Jewish coposer, lost since the Nazi era.
… setting a Russian poem by his friend Aleksander Orsanin to what he called a symphonic cantata for tenor,mixed choir and …
Persistence and Transformation of a Sephardi Penitential Hymn under Changing Enviromental Conditions
… than the next; rather all the musical versions are what can be called “The Tradition”. This article deals with 43 versions … methods to establish the core of persistence, and what tendencies guide its transformations. It appears that …