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Dance tune (Niggun rikud)
… A tune used mostly for dancing. The Hebrew term is likely a translation of the earlier Yiddish … in various communities). Hassidic dance tunes have defined musical characteristics such as duple meter and fast tempi … [1] See Vinaver-Schleifer, Anthology of Hassidic music , p. 240; see also Moshe Beregovski, Jewish …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… poems written by the poets of the so-called ‘Golden Age’ of Hebrew poetry in Spain (10th to 13th centuries), and these … in that the piyyutim are arranged according to the maqamat (musical modes) in use in the court music of the Ottoman … CD Song of Dawn . Jerusalem: Jewish Music Research Centre, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2007. 2. Sasson, Amnon. ' …
Purim, Purim, Purim lanu
… Images: Musical Transcription Transcription done by Abraham Zvi … Europe and North Africa of the “new” style of religious Hebrew song that developed in the 16th century in the Land … out that in its form, content and general spirit, this Hebrew song strongly recalls songs for Purim in …
Prayer for the state
… Synagogue … Liturgical Innovation in a Nation-State: The Music of the “Prayer for the Well-being of the State of … Rabbis Itzhak Herzog and Ben Zion Uziel, and amended by the Hebrew writer and Nobel Prize laureate Sh.Y. Agnon. … includes poetic devices that are rare in the traditional Hebrew prayers of antiquity, such as a large number of …
Mi-al har horev from the manuscripts of Obadiah the Proselyte
… was inspired by several recent inquiries regarding the musical manuscripts of Obadiah the Proselyte. The staff of … a general picture regarding this interesting set of early Hebrew musical manuscripts. In 1918, a fragment containing … (line 6 of the recto to line 10 of the verso) contains a Hebrew letter clef, marked by the letter dalet , the fourth …
Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… From the upcoming release of JMRC's-Anthology of Musical Traditions in Israel: The Historical Recordings of … of Turkey In spite of his unparalleled fame as a singer and musician during his lifetime, very few details about the … called Maftirim performed its ancient repertoire of Ottoman Hebrew music on Sabbath mornings and afternoons at the …
The “Hebrew Melody” by Joseph Achron: New version for voice, violin and piano premiered in Jerusalem, January 8, 2009
… The widely known “Hebrew Melody” by Joseph Achron was composed in 1911 as a … was performed in concerts of the “Society for Jewish Folk Music.” Later on, Achron returned to this work at least … In 1935 Achron returned to this vocal version of the “Hebrew Melody,” adding to it a violin obligato part. This …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… Shofet kol ha’aretz belongs to the medieval poetic Hebrew genre called pizmon that is characterized by a … line of the opening stanza, is the refrain (same words and music are repeated) and x, the last line of the rest of the … the present-day availability of medieval manuscripts of Hebrew liturgical orders allows for a fundamental revision …
Ner Haviv, Ner Na'eh
… the identification of texts’ author and an additional musical version, very different from the one we released … can be now amended. The text was written by the Polish-born Hebrew poet and author Sh. Shalom (pseudonym of Shalom … set the same poem to a very different musical style. This version of the song was recorded in an …
Cantar de las Flores
… Eastern-Mediterranean Sephardim: in various manuscripts: a Hebrew manuscript from Sarajevo (1794), one from Venice … As is frequent in the Coplas' repertoire, there are some Hebrew words: 'berajot' (benedictions), and in the refrain: … with the second verse of the repeated refrain. Thus, the music divides the ten verses of the textual stanza into …