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Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… users, attempts at reconstructing the “true origins” of the melody and text of Hatikvah as known in the present have … Eliyahu Hacohen, the ultimate connoisseur of the Israeli Hebrew song, who wrote one of the most authoritative studies on Hatikvah ever, notes that a Hebrew translation by Mendel Stern of Die Wacht am Rhein was …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… Coopersmith Hebrew version 1942: … ps://jewish-music.huji.ac.il/sites/default/files/attachments/Hebrew%20version%20Coopersmith%201942.jpg Emil Saculet … many the “founder” of modern Yiddish theatre. Indeed, the melody appears for the first time, with different words of …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… includes therefore the stanza before the last (on the Hebrew letter “shin”), the last one (on the letter “tav”) … to this question – the original source of the 'Hag Purim' melody – will remain an open one. According to Elie Halevy … present day. Feig sings Kipnis’ ‘Hag Purim, Hag Purim’ in Hebrew and Yiddish, a common practice in American Jewish …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… – On to Our Land.” Binder indicates that this is a Yemenite melody and gives no attribution for the text. In many ways, … The text draws from poetic formulae common in early Zionist Hebrew poetry. In Zionist songbooks and collections from the … and are only known to experts in the history of modern Hebrew song. Na’aleh L’artzeinu is only dimly remembered by …
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 … cantillation may seem antithetical to the kind of fusion of melody and speech that Judit Frigyesi describes in … which are given above or below each word in a printed Hebrew Bible, serve three functions: they indicate the …
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 … IMHM, F 13782). Even more interesting is the mention of the melody of Shofet kol ha’aretz in the manuscript of the …
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 … ensemble, The Chevra, [6] Abie Rotenberg (whose melody appears on the fourth album of the band, Dveykus), … octave leap at the opening of a melody—appears in modern Hebrew compositions in which the singing subject appeals …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… New Findings about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely … 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 …
“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 … Tradition A. Z. Idelsohn first published the Ottoman/Iraqi melody in 1922-23, with two versions published in two …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… performance context or with their melodies of old. The Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini, which used to be performed in … Moreover, the catalogue of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts at the National Library of Israel lists … pp. 38-39, titled “Shir ha-mayim”) without the melody. It is attributed to Ibn Gabirol and prefaced with …