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Four Melodies for Four Questions
… elements of a learning session (casuistry of Oral Law passages and other pedagogical texts) with liturgical ones … The traditional Ashkenazi learning tune Already in the late Middle Ages Rabbi Jacob ben Moses ha-Levi Moellin … (New York: Bloch Pub. Co, 1925). In Europe during the early 20 th century, we should mention the presence of this …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… of Isaiah 40:27 with etnaḥta at the end and katon in the middle. The brackets show that the level-two katon phrase … in Esther trope; the two pitch centers are not as clearly established and the switch is not as stark. Example 9 … in the reading of individuals as they present Biblical passages with the system of cantillation. …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… sections. The text draws from poetic formulae common in early Zionist Hebrew poetry. In Zionist songbooks and … to record the melodies associated with the early stages of the rebuilding of our homeland, so that we, in the … for such a Yiddish song. The modality is reminiscent of Middle-Eastern songs, such as the baladi songs of Syrian and …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… Internet Age, circulates virally in diverse variants, dosages and combinations ad nauseam . [1] These writings and … not derive from Smetana nor from a Sephardic prayer. And an early Zionist pioneer did not compose it spontaneously. Nor … and commercial recordings throughout the European, Middle Eastern and American Jewish diasporas, was a crucial …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… piyyutim The baqqashot singing tradition Piyyutim for the yearly cycle and life-cycle Summary Bibliography The … especially during the High Holidays, and the newer layer of Middle-Eastern Arabic musical style, which was crystallized … custom in Spain and in the Land of Israel during the Middle-Ages (Rabbi Yehuda ben Barzillai, who lived in the 11 th …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… structure of questions and answers and its numbers are nearly identical to those in “E h ad mi yodea,” with some of … has been the basis for several songs in different languages. Hereby follow some examples. H abad H asidism The H … Theodore Bikel who sings it in the folk-song medium, a Middle-Eastern inspired version by Frank London , and a …
Sher
… around 1830 (in Czechoslovakia) and the quadrille in the early nineteenth century (Parisian), and the lancers was … the ‘sher’ dance was even in use among Jews during the Middle Ages and moved with them over time to Eastern Europe. It was …
La Gallarda matadora
… for this link is the similarity between the musical languages of the two genres. Fusions between Sephardic music and … into the coalesced art form known as flamenco around the middle of the 19 th century. This process took place during … in some interesting commercial renditions, e.g. a very early one by Haim Effendi , I will focus here on the latter. …
Freylekhs (LKT)
… songs (e.g., frejlaxs ) were sung in other Ukrainian villages cannot be ruled out...” Beregovski 1935 [= … there husid or khosid )...” Feldman 1994, p. 32 . “In the middle of the street had to be the khupe , thereafter he … with a different ending form in the style of the period....Nearly all the melodies reach their peak on the second phrase …
Bazetsens (LKT)
… di kale . The bazetsns went the following way: In the middle of the room a stool was placed and there the bride … klezmorim , who played between verses solo obbligato passages on violin, clarinet or flute...The kale bazetsn is … Jewish Folk Music of the Ukrainian S.S.R. recorded in the early to mid-1930s. They play the tune as a freylekhs tsu …