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A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… has been largely, if not exclusively, dominated by the singing of paraliturgical Hebrew (and at times Judeo-Arabic … and holidays’ services. At 6:54 the public recites the congregational response “Yehe sheme raba,” each individual … with the cantor repeating the same words following the congregational response. This is a distinctive liturgical …
Moshe Attias
… the music industry. Mwijo began his music career in Israel singing and playing the mandolin, an instrument associated … his community, performing almost exclusively at family and congregational events. Despite having recorded over one … with Arabic vocabulary and grammatical formations. By singing in a specific style of Moroccan Arabic Mwijo in fact …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… a fourteenth century Seliḥot anthology is preceded by the singing instruction Be-niggun ‘Akedah (Reuchlin 7, 63r. Fig … choir and congregation, in which case the choir led the congregational singing. This can be inferred from the simple … thus, may in fact have referred to the traditional congregational singing. A different but similar type of …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… time (see for example our Song of the Month archive). The singing of serial folksongs added at the end of the seder is … to Music: in Hebrew and English for the Religious School, Congregational Seder, and Home Services (New York: Bloch … musical culture, had a lively metric character calling for congregational singing rathan than by the leader of the …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… in the 1960s, developing out of the folk music and communal singing tradition of Jewish summer camps. Jewish youth first … the Amidah . It also appears in the Ta’anit Hatzibbur (“Congregational fast” prayer) and in the evening and morning … a melody—appears in modern Hebrew compositions in which the singing subject appeals directly to God. Examples of this …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… Ashkenazi rite is obscured due to the abandonment of its singing in the liturgy. As the High Holy Days season … Beḳol Shofar [in the Jewish Encyclopedia]) is sung to the congregational hymns. It [the melody of Shofet] is thus used … texture. This combination of heretophony and organum in congregational singing is noticeable not only in synagogues …
Seliha-Selihot
… the participants ask for forgiveness for their sins, by singing and reciting piyutim (mainly Seliha piyutim) and … … Piyyut … Liturgical music … Liturgy … Cantorate … Congregational singing … Seliha-Selihot …
Responsorial Singing
… “Call and response,” “responsive,” or “responsorial” is a singing performance style in which a solo singer (leader) … few prayer books were available in the synagogue. To enable congregational participation, piyyutim , notably seli ḥ ot , included simple congregational responses such as ' shema ' adoshem ,' ' sela …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… was already in place and could be transferred to the singing of other texts. The thirteen to fourteen century … Beḳol Shofar [in the Jewish Encyclopedia]) is sung to the congregational hymns. It [the melody of Shofet] is thus used … Seroussi. “ Toward a history of Jewish oral traditions: The singing of the prayer ‘Hayom harat olam’ in Sephardi …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… The cabbalists of Safed ascribed prime importance to the singing of piyyutim. Their repertoire included poems written … been predominant in the Sephardi Jewish liturgy and piyyut singing in the Middle East, went into decline, and that of … the singing in the Morrocan Baqqashot is generally less congregational, but rather is performed by professional …