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The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… known as “Jerusalem-Sephardic,” which originated among the Jewish communities scattered throughout the Ottoman Empire … th centuries and developed under Turkish-Ottoman and Arabic musical influences. Contents The tradition of “Jerusalem-Sephardic hazzanut and piyyutim The …
Zemerl (LKT)
… refers to the term in question. It also indicates whether musical notation or sound recordings are included in the … common nusakh [liturgical mode] of the Vizhnitser Hasidic tradition....[it was played] at small celebrations like the … a circumcision, at Hasidic gatherings, as dinner music at Jewish weddings, and at non-Jewish occasions where Jewish …
And Now We're All Brothers: Singing In Yiddish In Contemporary North America
… song in America, with emphasis on its relation to past traditions and present concerns, most particularly the Holocaust and the construction of Jewish identities through musical performances. … 1 … 33942 … Farnham, Surrey … …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… created a number of songs about poverty and how the Jewish community “dealt with economic problems on the … to a house without a roof, a sukkah without skhakh (traditional covering of the roof of the sukkah in the … points out the connection between the song's theme and the musicality of the melody. In his view, the altered Dorian …
Karev Yom
… of the earliest commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after … 132, also appeared in France in 1957 as Israel - Chansons Traditionnelles d'Israel , Mode Disques – MDINT 9 179; the … songs are by Yemenite-born musicians who were active in the musical scene of British Palestine, Sara Levi-Tanai and …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… circumstances in which Imber’s poem was shaped and the musical contrafactum (adaption of a preexisting melody to a … culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its … Hatikvah on canonic Hebrew texts. Imber, a Jew raised in a traditional family, certainly had access to the Hebrew …
Cross-Repertoire Motifs in Liturgical Music of the Ashkenazi Tradition: An Initial Lay of the Land
… Motifs in the Liturgical Music of Ashkenazi Tradition,” was presented at the World Congress of Jewish Studies , Jerusalem, 2013. This article is an … motif … Motifs … Structure … Chazzan … Chazzanut … Hazzan … Musical structure … Repertoire … Synagogue … Synagogue music …
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 … comes after the festive dressing of the bride in her traditional regalia. In some places such as Rada'a, in … two stanzas) with each line consisting of two hemistiches. Musically, each textual line is accompanied by a melodic …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… ‘Haynt iz purim brider’ is found as an opening for many traditional Purim songs. The phrase is usually used to … It is hard to asses to what extent this is an original musical composition by Goldfaden or just an adaptation of a … eventually found itself back on the stage as a successful musical in Israel and Broadway (as The Flying Matchmaker ). …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… song, reflecting once again the intricate ways in which Jewish repertoires were constructed by diverse agents in the … Library, a still largely unexplored treasure of Jewish Musical Americana, includes a magnificent recording of … of this piyyut with a variety of rhythmic melodies, a tradition that was maintained in the modern Israeli …