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The “Proclamation Style” in Hebrew Music
… The melody-style we want to deal with here is quite well known to specialists of Hebrew music. Nearly all of them have encountered it, … in our opinion, it is one of the oldest strata of ancient Hebrew music. The sharp exposition of the intervals of the …
Melody and Poetry in the “Kuzari” (Hebrew)
… Judah Halevi's Kuzari speaks of the relationship between melody and textual metre in two kinds of vocal music. The … manuscript readings. Nor does Judah Ibn Tibbon's mediaeval Hebrew translation of the Arabic original resolve the difficulties. The context is a comparison of the Hebrew and Arabic languages. After discussing the uses of …
The Music and its Function in the Singing of the Qasīd anda birabbī dī kalaq (Hebrew)
… hallel is sung by the entire audience to a fixed melody with a slow, measured rhythm typical of liturgical … Function in the Singing of the Qasīd anda birabbī dī kalaq (Hebrew) … Uri Sharvit …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… Niggun ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew and Yiddish. Many of these texts touch directly upon … descendants. The story’s primary textual rendering in the Hebrew Bible (Genesis XXII:1–19) is somewhat brief, barely …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… both in the Yiddish-speaking world as well as in the modern Hebrew song repertoire in the Land of Israel. I am grateful … College Archive of Jewish Sound; Dr. Michael Lukin from the Hebrew University; Maestro Raymond Goldstein; and Prof. … Probably the innocent language of the song and its catchy melody led to its reception and popularity as a “folk” song, …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… nor is it always sung with the same stanzas or melody. In some contexts it may be referred to as a piyyut , … Istanbul. Here we encounter our song as a piyyut , with a Hebrew text, titled “Adonay hu elohenu” (The Lord is our God). It is fair to note that this Hebrew title is identical in meaning to the Judeo-Spanish …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… . Birnbaum introduces in it the score of Kol haneshamah , a Hebrew piece by composer Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti … he knew via the copies in Birnbaum’s collection at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. Fast forward to the … me-El tzur and the correspondent Qaddish set to the same melody arranged by David Shemer. Names and bios of the …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… mobile phone is the copy of a 78rpm record of a pizmon , a Hebrew para-liturgical hymn called “ Yom Yom Odeh ” (Every … pizmonim ) according to these musical forms and/or combined Hebrew sacred and poetic texts with melodies from … verses on demand and to set them to just about any sound or melody, such as that of a Turkish marching song (Sabato …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hacohen, NLI, Yc 197 … 714 … In his pioneer publication Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical … comprehensive method for addressing the musical aspects of Hebrew liturgical poetry from an evolutionary diachronic … [that] gives it the stamp of the common European song.” Melody emerges in this case from the poetic form and meter …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… of spiritual reality in the late Sephardic piyyut ,' [In Hebrew], Exile and diaspora: studies in the history of the … Figure 2. 'Bore 'ad ana,' Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew Poetry , Israel Davidson As shown above in the list … structure tying together all the documented versions of the melody. “Bore ‘ad ana” is also included in the order of …