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Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… a musical instruction is found in the book of customs, Minhagei Maharil : “When a circumcision took place on a Fast … of the Alsatian Jewish community’s chanting heritage ( minhag Elsass ) sings the one recording at the NSA. [34] While … transcriptions belong to the Western Ashkenazi rite ( minhag ’Ashkenaz ); we have not discovered any Eastern …
Jubal in the Middle Ages
… claimed the right of being the first inventors of music. Pythagoras, the first to have defined sound and sound relations …
Soothing Lyres and epôidai: Music Therapy and the Cases of Orpheus, Empedocles and David
… The psychagogic efficacy of music, namely its power to act on the …
Between Tradition and Modernity
… Tradition and Modernity: The High Holy Days Melodies of Minhag Ashkenaz According to Ḥazzan Maier Levi of Esslingen is … Tradition and Modernity: The High Holy Days Melodies of Minhag Ashkenaz According to Hazzan Maier Levi of Esslingen, at … … Yuval Music Series … The High Holy Days Melodies of Minhag Ashkenaz … Hazzan, Hazan, Chazzan, Hazzanut, Hazzanim, …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… century, titled Masekhet Purim u-ma’ariv le-leil Purim keminhag ha-ashkenazim . The publication of Kikhlot yeini in the …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… u’lecha nos’ot / Kolan vativkena [vatarona] Hamalach hago’el / Lifnei dal sho’el Ana haEl El / Avraham hakreh na … of redemption so that they can rejoice. Stanza E: Hamalakh hago’el, “Angel of deliverance:” - the poem’s conclusion …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… seder (lit. “order”) is one of the main home rituals. The Haggadah , the order of texts recounting the Exodus from … psalms). The musical repertoire for the performance of the Haggadah ’s texts grew exponentially through time (see for … innovation that probably enhanced the process of the Haggadah ’s musicalization. These additions also blurred the …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… in Constantinople in 1576 and Tahanunim ve-Selihot ke-minhag italiyani , Venice, 1587. This last appearance in the … of our piyyut appears in the Mahzor mi-kol Hashanah Minhag Polin , Altona, 1826, p. 326. This prayer book includes an appendix titled ‘Minhagim (“Customs”) written by the Gaon Our Master Rabbi Isaac …
Haggai Ben-Shammai
… Haggai Ben-Shammai was born in Tel-Aviv in 1939, grew up in … many years the editor and director of the RAMBI project. Haggai and Bitya have four children, grandchildren and … website. … Scholars of Karaism and Judeo-Arabic culture … Haggai Ben-Shammai …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… song of the suite (starting at 5:35) is no other than ‘Hag Purim, Hag Purim,’ a poem by Levin Kipnis to which we have … final answer to this question – the original source of the 'Hag Purim' melody – will remain an open one. According to …