… 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 … hymn (Avenary debatably defines it as an “elegy,” qinnah in Hebrew) for the Seventeenth of Tammuz, a fast day in Jewish …

… now recites the prayer for the dead, ‘Mercifiul God, etc.,’ chanting it in the accepted mournful tone. The klezmorim …

… from the ornery antisemite had everything to do with his Hebrew first name. [28]   Picture 6: Solomon Rosowsky (far … Zionist, and later the first professor of music at the Hebrew University. In 1907, the same year in which Shor … Zionists and Bolshevik leaders. For years he championed a Hebrew revival in the Soviet Union and the Zionist movement, …

Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century: The Music of Naftule…

… 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 … [2] Translation from The Koren Siddur, NusaḥAshkenaz: First Hebrew/English Edition (Jerusalem: Koren Publishers …

A term in use in the European Jewish musical tradition to refer to the different modal…

… Hasidic tish-nigunim. Nigunim (Yiddish nign , from the Hebrew niggun —melody) are chants, some with words but most … origin, klezmer tunes, and melodies of Yiddish popular and Hebrew quasi-Hasidic songs that were instrumentally … repertoires: the liturgical music; the tradition of chanting Sabbath paraliturgical table-songs (zmires) that …

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