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Alicia Svigals
… the L-Word. Svigals is the recipient of the Foundation for Jewish Culture's 2013 New Jewish Culture Network commission for her new score to the …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… the music within different historical contexts and local Jewish traditions. “E h ad mi yodea” is a cumulative song. … – God; two – the two tablets of the covenant; three – the Jewish patriarchs; four – the Jewish matriarchs; five – the … differentiate their song from the ones from the surrounding cultures because the number thirteen is considered to be an …
Vals (LKT)
… waltz meter, usually joyful. Waltzes were adopted from non-Jewish cultures by the Hasidic dynasties in Poland and Central … year was 1895... After the ceremony, as is customary in a Jewish wedding, the newlyweds were led into a private …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… known as “Jerusalem-Sephardic,” which originated among the Jewish communities scattered throughout the Ottoman Empire … singing tradition found among the descendants of the Jewish communities exiled from Spain to the lands of Islam … involvement in the musical activity of the surrounding culture. The Sephardic-Ottoman h azzan ’s understanding of …
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 … rather than from the emerging triumphalist Israeli Hebrew culture. The song belongs to the Ashkenazi repertoire for …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… Studying Hatikvah shows how a distinct Zionist music 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 …
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 … of folklore deal with the question of how carriers of folk culture remember texts that are transmitted orally. …
Vemen vestu zingen, vemen? Leibu Levin Performs in Yiddish
… in southwestern Ukraine). This new production of the Jewish Music Research Centre prepared around the centennial … a researcher of the JMRC specializing on Yiddish song and culture in Eastern Europe prepared a detailed scholarly … CD + booklet … Jerusalem, Israel … Bukovina, USSR, Israel … Jewish Music Research Centre, The Hebrew University of …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… and European Zionism, mid-century Yiddish secular culture, the contemporary klezmer scene, and even into … library at the New York campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, was “Six Songs from the Jewish … from a seminar on modern Hebrew song in American Jewish culture conducted by Dr. Edwin Seroussi, the Joyce Z. …
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 … cantillation has co-existed with tonality in European culture since 1600. Ne’eman observes that melodic variants …