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Ani hatsal [sic] (Shir hatunah)
… (Jewish community in Palestine) after it was published with musical notation by Abraham Zvi Idelsohn in one of his earliest Hebrew articles titled “Yemenite Jews and their Songs” ( … [1908], text on p. 128 and melody in the supplement of music notations, pp. 4-5). This version was then arranged by …
Eliyahu Hacohen
… contributions remain sealed to those who do not command the Hebrew language. Eliyahu Hacohen was perhaps among the most … lectures about the most diverse aspects of the modern Hebrew song (aka Zemer ‘ivri or Shirei Eretz Israel ) in its … throughout Israel, in formal institutions such as the music teachers’ seminary of the Levinsky College of …
Moshe Havusha
… traditions are based on both Syrian (“Halabi”) and Egyptian musical styles. Today, Havusha, who still lives in the Beit Israel neighborhood, is a popular hazzan , payytan , musician, and singer, with a large following across … also a documentary film about the life of Moshe Havusha (in Hebrew). … Paytan and Musician … Bakkashot … Iraq … oud …
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 the Italian tradition of Padua (see: Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection , AMTI 0201, …
Halleluya halleli nafshi (Psalm 146)
… This chant is an example of Hebrew psalmody that consists of a flexible melodic formula … This is one of the oldest genres of Sephardi liturgical music. It is used for singing psalms on diverse occasions, …
Mizmor le-david (Psalm 29)
… This is a rhythmicized example of the Hebrew psalmody used for the Sabbath eve (compare with no. 9 … urban centers of Morocco, a further proof of the liturgical music links between these Jewish centers in the past and of … Amsterdam by the choir. The last verse receives a special musical treatment, a sort of cadential pattern that leads to …
'Et sha'are ratzon
… and last strophes of one of the most remarkable medieval Hebrew poems based on Midrashic themes that are related to …
Alekhem 'eda qedoshah
… The qinnot (dirges) for the Ninth of Av, the Hebrew date marking the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, are one of the oldest musical layers in the Western Sephardi liturgical …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… in the Jewish past. A case in point is the scholar and musician Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern … Jewish history, including among other things the revival of Hebrew in Ottoman Palestine, the creation of a new secular … himself left a rather short autobiography in English and Hebrew published towards the end of his life, when his …
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, … appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one appeared in Die Chasanim Welt 3, no. 15, (Sh’vat, …