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Jewish Singing and Boxing in Georgian England
… What Israel Adler has provided us with in Hebrew Notated Manuscript Sources - RISM (Adler 1989) is a … study of the field. … 23458 … Jewish music … Jewish Singing … Researchers … Manuscripts … Israel Adler … Jewish Singing and Boxing in Georgian England … Shai Burstyn …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the passing of Rabbi … maintained and kept alive the Moroccan Jewish singing tradition in Israel against all odds. He was a … the relations and differences between the Moroccan Arab and Hebrew traditions of Andalusian music, and by his profound …
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 … is the gematria of mayim , water) officers I have left off singing, for the mouths of singers are filled with water, …

Courtney Blue
… Courtney is a graduate student at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, studying under Professor … Seroussi. She was born and raised in Seattle, Washington, singing Jazz and Classical music from a young age. She … at the JMRC and as a graduate teaching assistant at Hebrew University. Aside from her music studies, Courtney is …
“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 … of modern and old Hebrew songs intended for Israeli singing communities. [15] Its inclusion in such a book …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… time (see for example our Song of the Month archive). The singing of serial folksongs added at the end of the seder is … 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 …
Avi Bar-Eitan
… and lecturer. He received his Ph.D. in musicology at the Hebrew University, and his M.A. and M.Mus degrees and Artist’s Diploma from the Hebrew University and the Jerusalem Academy of Music and … span musicology and ethnomusicology and include communal singing ( shirah b’tzibbur ) in Israel today and its role in …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… in the 1960s, developing out of the folk music and communal singing tradition of Jewish summer camps. Jewish youth first … Friedman’s compositional corpus includes music for the Hebrew liturgy, English translations and interpretations of … octave leap at the opening of a melody—appears in modern Hebrew compositions in which the singing subject appeals …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… Ashkenazi rite is obscured due to the abandonment of its singing in the liturgy. As the High Holy Days season … 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 …

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 … which are given above or below each word in a printed Hebrew Bible, serve three functions: they indicate the … ———. Forthcoming. Singing God’s Words: The Performance of Biblical Chant in …