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"Im Nin’alu Daltei Nedivim" (Were the gates of the munificent closed)
… to many melodies. Alternate stanzas are written in Hebrew and Arabic. This recording features Shalom Keisar, … The singer opens with the song’s most widely known melody, which was popularized by Bracha Zefira among the … closing hemistich. The tawshihִ is sung to another, faster melody. It is usually sung in a responsorial manner, as …
A Polka-Mazurka
… Composed in 1937; first collection " Leibu Levin: Word and Melody " (In Yiddish, Hebrew and English; Tel Aviv: I.L. Peretz publications. …
[E-erokh nivi. Mi-kehilah]. (Berit-milah)
… terms of quality and completeness. It is a very well-known melody from Aleppo and Jerusalem for a famous poem by the Moroccan Hebrew poet R. David Hassin (1727-1792) that rapidly spread … recording shouts “shavu’a tov”, “have a good week”). This melody, that appears to be a variant of the North Moroccan …
Ani hatsal [sic] (Shir hatunah)
… notation by Abraham Zvi Idelsohn in one of his earliest Hebrew articles titled “Yemenite Jews and their Songs” ( Luah HaHaretz LiShnat 5669 [1908], text on p. 128 and melody in the supplement of music notations, pp. 4-5). This … (starts at 25:05). The second text, sung to the same melody, is Be'et ratzon tehinati , a poem from the …
Kol beru’e ma’ala umata
… of Prof. Juda Leon Palache. Prof. Palache was a lecturer of Hebrew Language and Literature at the University of … Cardozo, it was Zwi Werblowski, Professor Emeritus of the Hebrew University, who transmitted this tune to Leon Palache in Amsterdam. This melody may belong to the Italian stratum of the Amsterdam …
Mizmor le-david (Psalm 29)
… This is a rhythmicized example of the Hebrew psalmody used for the Sabbath eve (compare with no. 9 above). Each verse is set to a simple syllabic melody that consists of two main motifs, expanded or … here. By the beginning of the 20th century however, this melody was performed in Amsterdam by the choir. The last …
Ben adam mah lekha nirdam
… Penitential Prayers starting on the first day of the Hebrew month of Elul leading to Rosh Hashanah, the New Year, and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement). This is the melody is used in New York City and Rev. Lopes Cardozo learned it after his arrival there. A different melody is employed for this text in Amsterdam. … The Western …
'Et sha'are ratzon
… and last strophes of one of the most remarkable medieval Hebrew poems based on Midrashic themes that are related to … to the shofar service. This traditional Western Sephardi melody differs substantially from the tune for the same text … by the hazzan in an embellished version of the same melody used for the stanzas performed by the congregation. …
Miyom qadmon
… of a society that was dedicated to the study of Hebrew literature. The numerical value of the first letters … of this confraternity. Ahava be-ta'anugim is an unusual Hebrew poem. Its stanzas, in the Italian sesta rima pattern … feleh ("and a miracle") for the famous Dutch waffles. The melody, in the spirit of a ländler , may be of Dutch origin …
Alekhem 'eda qedoshah
… The qinnot (dirges) for the Ninth of Av, the Hebrew date marking the destruction of the Temple of … the day marking the national defeat. Almost the same melody is sung in Amsterdam and New York City. A version of this melody appears in the Aguilar and De Sola anthology ( 1857: …