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Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… of religious poems in Hebrew and Yiddish. It was also featured in many publications of Jewish folk songs in the … seasonally by preschool children, retain stylistic music features of the early Hebrew song, which are otherwise …
Sirba
… dance genres due to the presence of triplets....The sirba features running triplets throughout its 2/4 measures...” …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… of the numbers being more Christian in character. They also feature the distinctive phrasing of God dwelling and floating in the heavens and on the earth. These features led some researchers to question whether the Jewish …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… They included only two stanzas but later publications featured between three to nine stanzas. One of the most … the leap of a fourth in the opening phrase, both melodies feature simple stepwise progression. Additionally, except … melody to this song can be found in Gideon (1923), which features an arrangement for two voices and piano …
Karev Yom
… songs. From these records we learn that Bikel’s voice was featured on the Israeli radio, then a total governmental …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… two decades. This collaborative ethos is certainly a major feature in the gestation of the Zionist anthem and its … , Spring 2012, http://www.midstreamthf.com/2012/spring/feature.html, accessed April 3, 2015; Zvia Ben-Yosef Ginor, … , Spring 2012, http://www.midstreamthf.com/2012spring/feature.html , accessed April 3, 2015. Bohlman, Philip. …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… the hottest of days. The recorded performance of the song featured in this article (from Avraham's 1995 album Neve … [11] while in the villages the women's skin was darker, a feature considered to be sign of beauty in turn. Avraham …
Vemen vestu zingen, vemen? Leibu Levin Performs in Yiddish
“The songs of Leibu await definitive professional evaluation,” wrote back in 1984 the…
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… years upwards of 300,000 people. It is raucous, loud and features ecstatic dances, songs and bonfires. A central …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… below each word. However, the chant also has clear musical features, with a variety of scales, motives, contours, … present paper, I will provide a new perspective on musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern Ashkenazi … will find that the Haftarah and High Holiday melodies have features in common, including the scale and focal pitches, …