An exploration of rabbinucal conceptions of music through texts addressing the Biblical…

… Maqam: Ḥ ijaz This piyyut for Simḥat Torah appears in the ma ḥ zor after the service and Torah reading for that holiday. We readily recognize its … El, mi-pi El, titbarach Israel —from the well-known Simḥat Torah piyyut beginning Ein adir ka-Adonai, ein baruch ke-ben …

… … … 37 … 1993 … Foreign melodies … Popular music … Simhat Torah … Torah … America … Ethnomusicology … Field work … USA … Pop … … Doodle Dandy? Identity and Melody at an American Simhat Torah Celebration …

… Also called 'Ba'al Koray.' Officiant who reads the Torah from the scroll in the synagogue with proper …

A shorter version of the song, quite similar in content to the former ones. The last…

… Two fragments: Az yashir (Keriat ha-Torah). Then [they] sang. From the Song of the Sea (Reading of the Torah); From Shir-ha-Shirim (Ketuvim). From Song of Songs … of Isaac Lurie … Two fragments: Az yashir (Keriat ha-Torah) and from Shir-ha-Shirim (Ketuvim). …

This is another version of the copla about Terah’s wife’s pregnancy and the miraculous…

… as of 1951). … 1 … 35282 … … 1599 … Hebrew cantillation … Torah … Taamim … Ercole Bottrigari … Il trimerone de' …

… is perhaps the best-known piyyut for the holiday of Simhat Torah, which marks the end of the annual cycle of reading … sanctuary by the congregants carrying in their arms all the Torah Scrolls found in the Ark. In the tradition of the Beit … festival of Shavu’ot, the celebration of the giving of the Torah at Sinai, and only later was it adapted to the …

… A hymn that precedes the Torah blessing and the reading of the Torah on Shavuot. Historically, the poem was recited as an …