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Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… the only surviving footage of spontaneous pre-Holocaust folk choreography. In the present brief contribution, I will … … 23259 … Yiddish … Yiddish Films … Jewish music … Yiddish songs … Film music … Film … Unintentional History: Musical …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… of the Binding of Isaac and was also used for additional songs in Hebrew and Yiddish, the content of which relates to … the same melody. The melody itself presents a mixture of a folk tune and a psalmodic chant. It is simple, easily … of Ashkenazic Hazanim .” In Studies in Biblical and Jewish Folklore . Ed. Raphael Patai et al . Indiana University …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… Studying songs for Passover offers us a rich field of inquiry into … of David Edelstadt from the earliest edition of his songs, Folks Gedikhte , New York, Hebrew Publications Company, … its catchy melody led to its reception and popularity as a “folk” song, at times deprived of any mention of authorship. …
Moshe Attias
… Yossef Chetrit from University of Haifa he recorded many songs from these manuscripts that Chetrit transcribed for … now, Silver comments, only one musician has mastered those songs since Ben Haroush and that man was Mwijo. It is … does not mean what he says.” Oz further defined him as “a folk clown, he sings as he speaks, without censorship.” …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… and Shavuot holidays, which is derived from a group of songs often referred to as the ‘cycle of Moses’ due to their … s (musical modes), titled Shirei Israel be-eretz ha-qedem (Songs of Israel in the Land of the Orient; SHIBA ), … of the Sephardic Jews of Tetuan and Morocco ,” Track 09, Folkways Records, 1983. This relatively early recording …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… and poetic texts with melodies from pre-existing popular songs, a practice with roots in the sixteenth century that … greeted by the musicians present as the “thief of songs”, whence he challenged them to compare their melodies … how the dabke , one of the region’s most popular folk dances, belonged to the Palestinian national struggle: …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… is found in the last of a series of five folios with songs for the Seventeenth of Tammuz, all framed by the seli … the “Western” melody, i.e. Sulzer’s, is similar to German folk melodies, some documented as early as the fifteenth … is found in many Ashkenazi liturgical melodies and Yiddish folksongs. All in all, this oral version vindicates Wodak’s …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… recorded items (each one comprising several units, such as songs and dialogues), which, although already digitized and … in different post-war sub-disciplines of musicology such as folk music research, Cantus-Planus-research, or the study of … four articles in the JMRC journal Yuval : Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition, …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… and North African versions in the article entitled “Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardic Melodies … fast days in the Jewish liturgical calendar, spiced with folk tales related to these events. When the section in the …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis … collection . Middleton WI: A-R editions, 2014. Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics makes public a forgotten source …