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Yemenite Qasīd Songs (Hebrew)
… Besides the types of Jewish poetry in Yemen - nasid, sirah, zaffeh, haduyo and … a rich repertoire forgotten with the passage of time. The composers of these songs were mostly gifted folk poets. The subjects are amusing tales from the Jewish lore, such as the Creation, Adam and Eve in the …
Salamone Rossi as a Composer of "Hebrew" Music
… practically only collection of religious works by a Jewish composer of art music. They were written for various … Rossi … Rossi, Salamone, 1570?-ca. 1630 … Composer … Jewish composers … Art Music … Seventeenth (17th) Century … …
Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… Adler has shown in a lifetime of work, the history of Jewish music is really a set of complex, interlocking … set of source materials to create a portrait of a given Jewish community and time in terms of its musical life. One … to document a soon-to-vanish world, filmmakers and film composers deployed a number of myths, strategies, and …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… wars and vicissitudes in Spain that greatly affected the Jewish communities there. In 1140 Ibn Ezra immigrated to … poetry, research on Hebrew grammar, writings concerning Jewish thought (including philosophy and various scientific … piyyut has been set to new tunes by contemporary Israeli composers. The Ottoman/Iraqi Tradition A. Z. Idelsohn …
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 … and supplication. [3] Settings of Shema’ Koleinu by other composers The combination of the moving words and the …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… library at the New York campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, was “Six Songs from the Jewish Homeland, Arranged for Mixed Voices.” [2] This … pronunciations. None of the songs have attributions for composers or lyricists, though two of the melodies are …
Moritz Rosenhaupt
… town of Jesberg near Kassel on March 14, 1841. However the Jewish Encyclopedia (1906) places his birth place in … Professor J. Hess from Heidelberg; and (according to the Jewish Encyclopedia ) the “choir leader Benz,” who taught … settings by Rosenhaupt mixed with a few pieces by other composers for daily, Sabbath and High Holiday liturgy for …
Or Haganuz
… by Hajdu. Using a technique that recalls the way romantic composers interpreted literary texts (in this case … Ashkenazi hazzanut and to all those who have an interest in Jewish music. You can download MP3s at Amazon , or find it … … 1 CD + booklet … Jerusalem, Israel … Jerusalem, Israel … Jewish Music Research Centre, The Hebrew University of …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its practice at ceremonies of Jewish institutions, synagogues, schools and youth … song was a standard practice of Russian romans and opera composers. In short, one can surmise that there were certain …
Karev Yom
… of the earliest commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after … sound and the packaging of Bikel’s album catered to this Jewish market and its imagination of the new Israel. The … songs (thirteen out of eighteen) are by five canonic Israel composers that dominated the “golden age” of the modern …