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Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition
… the nature of man, and therefore given to produce natural laws, or at least some regularities that can be relied upon … … Instruments … Percussion … Definitions … Monophony … Jewish … Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition … Edith (Esther) Gerson Kiwi …
Bernardo Feuer
… exclusively synagogue material and included arrangements of Jewish folk songs, choral parts of operas in the original … During this period Feuer also taught music in different Jewish schools in Buenos Aires, where he also conducted the … newspaper in Buenos Aires, and subsequently his mother-in-law suggested writing music for the text. This song version …
The Liturgy of Beta Israel: Music of the Ethiopian Jewish Prayer
… of Operation Moses when a significant proportion of the Jewish population of Ethiopia was flown from the Sudan to … in Jerusalem, Machon Meir, to familiarize them with general Jewish history and Orthodox religious law ( Halacha ) that regulates the private sphere among …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… destructive in scale, the fire came as a great blow to the Jewish community living in Saloniki at the time. The fire … tens of thousands of Jews homeless and consumed most of the Jewish neighborhood in the old city, including areas of … was punishment for the sins of not keeping the religious laws of Shabbat ( los pekados del shabbat ).” 8 El Incendio …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a performing stage, even though major … combines elements of a learning session (casuistry of Oral Law passages and other pedagogical texts) with liturgical …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Composer Deborah Lynn Friedman (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an … shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. Friedman’s compositional … Synagogues,” in Sacred Sound and Social Change , eds. Lawrence A. Hoffman and Janet R. Walton (Notre Dame and …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… in God's strength, and be ye strong, My people, and His law obey, Then will He pardon sin and wrong, Then mercy … we can reconstruct with a certain degree of accuracy how Jewish liturgical practices evolved prior to the invention … also attested in several medieval manuscripts of the Roman Jewish rite available at the IMHM catalogue. The persistence …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, … I will provide a new perspective on musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern Ashkdnazi tradition, a … in older notations by Abraham Binder (1959) and Cantor Lawrence Avery (unpublished), and they are published and …
Vivat
… with him in the middle, just as at a wedding in a little Jewish town.” [Nikolayev, Kherson province, afterwards the … “At a wedding they used to play in honor of each in-law a ‘vivat’ and in the morning later a ‘frimorgns’ or a … The groom goes first and after him all the remaining in-laws. As soon as they enter, the klezmer play a freylekhs …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… of 'play song” or singing game commonly performed among the Jewish communities of central and southern Yemen. It is sung … h enna ceremony as part of the repertoire of Yemenite Jewish women singers. In Yemen, the separation of men and … qalbha qasī, Qad ḥammalatnī al-ḥaṭab walma – cala rasī Law zawajunī bnaye bint al-khabbaza, Al-wajh zay al-qamar …