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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 … vol. IX2. A. Hebrew version of a fragment from the Judeo-Arabic commentary by Dunash ibn Tamim (10th century) on the … probably the earliest mention of music in mediaeval Judeo-Arabic literature dealing with the classification of …

The Hallelôt in the Yemenite Dīwān (Hebrew)
… been examined as a poetic genre, a fact that hampers the musicologists. A preliminary listing is given, of printed … seems tolerably representative, all together 289 items. The musical analysis is based on 97 hallel ô t recorded over … unknown; the language is Hebrew, rarely Aramaic, but never Arabic. It should be noted that they appear already in the …

Yemenite Qasīd Songs (Hebrew)
… and amusing in content. They are written in spoken Arabic so that the simpler people and the women, who did not … and they provided entertainment through their content and music. The qasid were sung at the end of parties, once the … published here, with Hebrew translation and apparatus. The musical treatment of the same qasid , performed by Zecharia …

The Music and its Function in the Singing of the Qasīd anda birabbī dī kalaq (Hebrew)
… - includes three main types of poems: sirim (or, in Arabic: niswad ), sir ô t, and hallel ô t . All three … Jews … Yemenite community … Poems … Singing … Diwan … The Music and its Function in the Singing of the Qasīd anda …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… from B’nai Jeshrun: http://www.bj.org/spiritual-life/music-of-bj/invitation-to-piyyut-na/el-eliyahu/ Literary … asks for a revelation from God or from the Messiah. Music: Origins and Performances The piyyut “Eli Eliyahu” is … there is also an additional set of stanzas {A} in Judeo-Arabic and another refrain in Hebrew {B}. R A1 B C1 R A2 B …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… remembered for his contributions to the liturgical music of American Reform Judaism and his work on Biblical … that Binder may indeed have correctly identified an Arabic background melody to this song (though not … this melody with a number of songs that are 'fused of Arabic, Slavic, Yemenite and Yiddish motives' and, …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… men's songs (including liturgical and para-liturgical music). The repertoire also deals with themes that reflect … woman in charge of decorating her in h enna ( alshare'a in Arabic). At the bride's house, after the evening feast or … dance repertoires. Qad Zawajunī in English translation, Arabic transliteration and Hebrew translation הִנֵּה …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… legislative design. Because of the “folk” origins of its music and the re-writing of Naftali Herz Imber’s poem … as follows: you take a Russian, Ukrainian, Rumanian or also Arabic or Turkish melody, adapt it to the new Hebrew song, … Hatikvah , inspired by Idelsohn’s table, a medieval Hispano-Arabic ancient pedigree by linking it to the Spanish …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… to 20 th centuries and developed under Turkish-Ottoman and Arabic musical influences. Contents The tradition of … these communities exiled from Spain was the use of the Arabic-Turkish modal system ( maqam ), a musical system that …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… the modern fate of the song with in contemporary Israeli musical repertoire. H ad Gadya was incorporated to the … Jews and was translated into the vernacular (Ladino, Arabic, etc.). Songs similar to H ad Gadya are found in … its persecutors. A contemporary take on H ad Gadya and its musical setting Along with its various literary …