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Dance tune (Niggun rikud)
… A tune used mostly for dancing. The Hebrew term is likely a translation of the earlier Yiddish …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… poems written by the poets of the so-called ‘Golden Age’ of Hebrew poetry in Spain (10th to 13th centuries), and these … CD Song of Dawn . Jerusalem: Jewish Music Research Centre, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2007. 2. Sasson, Amnon. ' …
Im nin'alu
… to many melodies. Alternate stanzas are written in Hebrew and Arabic. Here stanzas 1, 2, 3, and 7 are printed …
Purim, Purim, Purim lanu
… Europe and North Africa of the “new” style of religious Hebrew song that developed in the 16th century in the Land … out that in its form, content and general spirit, this Hebrew song strongly recalls songs for Purim in … Coplas de Purim. It can be assumed that when composing his Hebrew poem for Purim, Gallego had in mind this Ladino genre …
Prayer for the state
… Rabbis Itzhak Herzog and Ben Zion Uziel, and amended by the Hebrew writer and Nobel Prize laureate Sh.Y. Agnon. … includes poetic devices that are rare in the traditional Hebrew prayers of antiquity, such as a large number of … more detailed information on the historical development of Hebrew prayers for the government and the authorship of the …
Mi-al har horev from the manuscripts of Obadiah the Proselyte
… a general picture regarding this interesting set of early Hebrew musical manuscripts. In 1918, a fragment containing … (line 6 of the recto to line 10 of the verso) contains a Hebrew letter clef, marked by the letter dalet , the fourth letter in the Hebrew alphabet. This clef can be interpreted in a number of …
Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… called Maftirim performed its ancient repertoire of Ottoman Hebrew music on Sabbath mornings and afternoons at the …
The “Hebrew Melody” by Joseph Achron: New version for voice, violin and piano premiered in Jerusalem, January 8, 2009
… The widely known “Hebrew Melody” by Joseph Achron was composed in 1911 as a … In 1935 Achron returned to this vocal version of the “Hebrew Melody,” adding to it a violin obligato part. This … English translation of the text for the vocal version of “Hebrew Melody” by Marie Rap-hoph Achron as printed in the …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… Shofet kol ha’aretz belongs to the medieval poetic Hebrew genre called pizmon that is characterized by a … the present-day availability of medieval manuscripts of Hebrew liturgical orders allows for a fundamental revision … to the superb catalogue of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts (hereby: IMHM) at the National Library of …
Ki Hinneh Kahomer
… taken from Philip Birnbaum's High Holiday Prayer Book (NY: Hebrew Publishing Company, 1951). This piyyut is a part of …