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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: …
Amen amen shem nora
… 1545), one of the earliest printed collections of religious Hebrew poems, many of which were written by Shlomo Mazal … Tov, a prominent poet who lived in Saloniki and Turkey. The melody is one of the favorite old tunes of the Western … and Southern France too. Rev. Lopes Cardozo learned this melody in Amsterdam from Mr. Leon Palache ( see no.5 above) …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… text for easy online search and mobile viewing. Idelsohn's Hebrew and English biographies, written in the early 1930s, … in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one appeared in Die Chasanim Welt 3, no. 15, (Sh’vat, … the synagogal music which had been so permeated by foreign melody; by the fact that all of the works of the great …
"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 Uri Cohen, … the first stanza, and the first part of the third. The melody of this version is one of the least known to which …