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The Music and its Function in the Singing of the Qasīd anda birabbī dī kalaq (Hebrew)
… The Jewish Yemenite collection of poems - the Diwan - … . All three are intended to be sung as a part of the men's singing and dancing during family celebrations. Such a … melody with a slow, measured rhythm typical of liturgical singing. In most cases the literary form of the first …
Jewish Singing and Boxing in Georgian England
… is no question that for the first time ever the grounds of Jewish musical manuscript sources have been surveyed, mapped … a new era in the scholarly study of the field. … 23458 … Jewish music … Jewish Singing … Researchers … Manuscripts … Israel Adler … Jewish …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… Yiẓḥak , or ‘Akedah ) has assumed an important function in Jewish religion and culture since Antiquity. This renowned narrative describes how the first Jewish family (Abraham, Sarah and Isaac) came close to … a fourteenth century Seliḥot anthology is preceded by the singing instruction Be-niggun ‘Akedah (Reuchlin 7, 63r. Fig …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… a rich field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, when new forms of expressing Jewishness through music challenged the normative status of … A second, unidentified female voice joins Belarsky in the singing of the third stanza. The great American Jewish …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the … and died on April 30, 2020. He came, as do many Moroccan Jewish performing artists and composers, from a family of … the music industry. Mwijo began his music career in Israel singing and playing the mandolin, an instrument associated …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… elohenu” appears in this collection under makam Shehnaz . Singing in an Ottoman Turkish style, the Maftirim have maintained their oral tradition of choral singing until the present day. As a result, we have an … connected to the performance practices of the local Jewish-Portuguese community. To the contrary, Salomon’s …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… made my way up to AMAR to search for historical records of Jewish musicians from Aleppo, the city which, for a long … as elsewhere in the Arab world during the Nahda era, Jewish musicians played an active role in the performance … I put my headphones on. Maybe the music, his accent or singing style would provide a clue. I listen again to the …
Ben-Zion (Yisrael Noach) Kapov-Kagan
… Noach Kapov-Kagan was born in 1899 in Romania. He began singing from a young age in a number of synagogue choirs, … the United States, he served as hazzan at the Ocean Parkway Jewish Center in New York, and subsequently at the Concourse … He also served for a period of time as president of the Jewish Ministers and Cantors Association. Kapov-Kagan was …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… for the Ninth of Av among the Sephardic and Oriental Jewish communities. The identity of the author is unknown, … Hebrew], Exile and diaspora: studies in the history of the Jewish people presented to Professor Haim Beinart on the … stanzas he sings. Hocha was blind from childhood, so he was singing from memory. However, his musical renditions of …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the … Melngailis collection . Middleton WI: A-R editions, 2014. Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics makes public a forgotten … Zion”; Zemereshet #154). The performer apparently started singing Jabotinsky’s song but confused it with “Se’u tziona” …