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Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… ever since the day of the Renaissance Humanists. [1] The Hebrew chanting depends on the text, and is determined by … which are given above or below each word in a printed Hebrew Bible, serve three functions: they indicate the … (weekly Torah reading) “lekh l’kha.” I have provided the Hebrew with te’amim (Example 1a), and an English …
Assaf Shelleg
… Assaf Shelleg is senior lecturer of musicology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was previously the … cultural chain reactions this dislocation catalyzed in Hebrew culture through the 1970, the … the backdrop of contiguous developments in modern Hebrew literature. Jewish Contiguities won the 2015 Engle …
Haggai Ben-Shammai
… and great-grandchildren. Ben-Shammai studied at the Hebrew University in the departments of Arabic Language and … Professor Emeritus of Arabic Language and Literature at the Hebrew University. He has served as co-director of the … Literature and the Friedberg Geniza Project. Source: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem website. … Scholars of …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… Yemen 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 allow for a fundamental revision of … to the superb catalogue of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts (hereby: IMHM) at the National Library of …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Friedman’s compositional corpus includes music for the Hebrew liturgy, English translations and interpretations of … octave leap at the opening of a melody—appears in modern Hebrew compositions in which the singing subject appeals … [2] Translation from The Koren Siddur, NusaḥAshkenaz: First Hebrew/English Edition (Jerusalem: Koren Publishers …
Avi Bar-Eitan
… and lecturer. He received his Ph.D. in musicology at the Hebrew University, and his M.A. and M.Mus degrees and Artist’s Diploma from the Hebrew University and the Jerusalem Academy of Music and … Dr. Bar-Eitan teaches the Aural Musicianship courses at the Hebrew University, is responsible for the musicology …
Tanya Sermer
… is a Lady Davis Post-Doctoral Fellow in musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her B.Mus. from …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… Ashkenazi communities, a paraphrase in Yiddish followed the Hebrew text phrase by phrase, a common learning technique in … W. Binder, Seder Melodies: The Hagaddah Set to Music: in Hebrew and English for the Religious School, Congregational … tune (below) in his important songster Manginot shirenu: Hebrew melodies old and new, religious and secular (New …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… onle of the last great poets of the Spanish 'Golden Age' of Hebrew poetry. Ibn Ezra was born in Tudela, Spain in 1089 … Ibn Ezra wrote Biblical commentary, poetry, research on Hebrew grammar, writings concerning Jewish thought … fields) and also translated important books of his era into Hebrew. [1] Performance Context “Eli Eliyahu” is sung on …
Arba Otiyot
… developed by the Piyut Ensemble of the Ben-Zvi Institute, a Hebrew University institution dedicated to the research of … Institute/NaNa Disk … Contemporary Jewish Music … Sacred Hebrew Songs from the Saharan Maghreb … Piyyutim … 5 … 2017 …