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The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… This article shows the crystallization of the prayer and singing style known as “Jerusalem-Sephardic,” which … the 20 th century in Jerusalem and is a combination of the Hebrew language, which forms the base of prayers and … University of Chicago Press, 1998. * Translated from the Hebrew original in 'An Invitation to Piyut' website, by Elie …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… published both in the ninth volume of his Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies (1932), which is dedicated to … of the poet Haim Nahman Bialik, an acquaintance, she began singing Yiddish folk songs, becoming one of the first female … University Press. Idelsohn, Abraham Zvi. 1932. Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies: Volume 9 The Folk Song of the East …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… 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 … to wander around the streets of Rishon le-Tziyyon loudly singing the Russian revolutionary song ‘Mi za svobodu …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… … Background Qad Zawajunī is a form of 'play song” or singing game commonly performed among the Jewish communities … Zawajunī in English translation, Arabic transliteration and Hebrew translation הִנֵּה הִשִּׂיאוּני הִנֵּה הִשִּׂיאוּני עלמה … the Dead: Text, Body and Voice,' Doctoral Thesis, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2011. (In Hebrew) Klein, …
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”) … niggun . This type of performance recalls the patterns of singing ‘Shoshanat Yaakov’ by the Hassidim of the Modzhitz … 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
… 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 … following: I learned the song (by ear) as a child from the singing of a woman named Molly Sallen, who taught in the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …