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Bernardo Feuer
… was born on May 1 st , 1910 in Lemberg [Lviv], a city then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire but now in Ukraine. He … Kalmele Weitz, Oscar Haller, Aaron Gutman, and Leibele Schwartz. The Hazormir choir repertoire was not exclusively … synagogue material and included arrangements of Jewish folk songs, choral parts of operas in the original language or …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… Fire of Saloniki), also known as La cantiga del fuego (The Song of the Fire) and, after its opening line, Día de … fire. Today, the upscale Electra Palace hotel sits in the heart of the city where another Jewish school, the Alliance … of the lyrics within a summary of the fire: “The fire started in a quarter named Agua Muev a and expanded through …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… 14 from the 1998 JMRC recording Nights in Canaan, Early Songs of the Land of Israel (1882-1946) . … Not all … Sephardic milieu. The lyrics cover an apparently earthly topic, but do so with concealed and semi-overt … the four stanzas which contain the acrostic and does not start with the refrain. In an important study of this song, …
Arba Otiyot
… of the Jews of the Tafilalt (Berb. Tāfīlālt) region, in particular to the lore of the venerated tzaddiq (Heb. … and the members of the rabbinical dynasty he founded. The songs have been codified in a compendium titled Yagel Yaacov … Disk … Contemporary Jewish Music … Sacred Hebrew Songs from the Saharan Maghreb … Piyyutim … Choral, Choral …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… immigrated to Italy, and from there to France and to other parts of Christian Europe. Toward the end of his life he … Context “Eli Eliyahu” is sung on Saturday night as part of the havdalah (separation) ceremony. Havdalah is a … during the Sabbath. Therefore, a prominent motif in these songs is the figure of Elijah the Prophet (Eliyahu), whose …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… texts grew exponentially through time (see for example our Song of the Month archive). The singing of serial folksongs … kits, many of them produced in Israel. The subject of this article is the singing of the section known as the Four … minhag (custom) singles out the Four Questions as a particularly musical moment in the seder . Until the mid-20 …
Avi Bar-Eitan
… the Hebrew University, and his M.A. and M.Mus degrees and Artist’s Diploma from the Hebrew University and the … dealt with the evaluation of “the gray area between the art, folk, and popular in the Israeli song.” His research interests span musicology and …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Lynn Friedman (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an important role in … set the first line of the prayer (divided into two parts) that encapsulates its main theme: Part one: שְׁמַע קולֵנוּ, ה' אֱלהֵינוּ, חוּס וְרַחֵם עָלֵינו …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… As the High Holy Days season arrives, we dedicate again the Song of the Month to this text, that was already featured is … by Mrs. Alice Lucas (in Abrahams 1920) Judge of the earth, who wilt arraign The nations at thy judgment seat, … was wont to be Brought day by day continually. Thou who art clothed with righteousness, Supreme, exalted over all …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… read on Purim; and (6) one for the festive megillot —Song of Songs, Ruth, and Ecclesiastes—read on Passover, … observes, “Melody is not an additional element, but part and parcel of the text, inseparable from it and … for text phrasing. Jacobson (2002, 412) provides a chart that indicates the frequency of the te’amim throughout …