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Moritz Rosenhaupt
… town of Jesberg near Kassel on March 14, 1841. However the Jewish Encyclopedia (1906) places his birth place in … major codifiers of the South German synagogue liturgy in musical notation and yet his name does not appear … the scholarly literature concerning the Western Ashkenazi tradition. Those closer to his time thought differently. For …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… rest serve as archival records of an earlier time and its musical repertoire. The songs are all notated with piano … in such a ready-to-use manner, easily accessible to all musically literate people regardless of Hebrew knowledge. … explained. The individual phrases can all be located in traditional liturgical poems and the lyrics, like many of …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, … and below each word. However, the chant also has clear musical features, with a variety of scales, motives, … features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern Ashkdnazi tradition, a tradition that developed in the areas that …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… we can reconstruct with a certain degree of accuracy how Jewish liturgical practices evolved prior to the invention … is an order of prayers for the entire year according to the tradition of Worms. Before the poem “Melitz yosher ya’amod, … sung preceding and during the High Holidays. Ashkenazi musical traditions of Shofet kol ha'aretz Our previous …
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 … developing out of the folk music and communal singing tradition of Jewish summer camps. Jewish youth first brought … are expressed in Friedman’s composition. The following musical analysis of “Shema’ Koleinu” is based on the score …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… New Findings about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a … with liturgical ones (blessings, prayers and psalms). The musical repertoire for the performance of the Haggadah ’s …
“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 … and with the departure of the additional “soul at rest,” traditionally granted to believers during the Sabbath. … format. It is also possible to see that there is a musical rhyme matching the textual rhyme of each section of …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… Early Songs of the Land of Israel (1882-1946) . … Not all traditional Jewish holiday songs have survived in their original … and its documentation are therefore formidable. However, musical renditions of the piyyut are rather rare and will be …
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 … Greeks, and Muslims, each developing their own cultural traditions and speaking in their own languages.” 5 The Jews … with them as they migrated, including literary traditions, musical forms and the Judeo-Spanish language, Ladino. The …
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 … were seasoned practitioners of the unique Ethiopian Jewish tradition, which differs from Halacha . It quickly became … Ethiopian … Jewish … Liturgy … Aliyah … Israel … Ethiopia … Musical traditions … Ethiopian Jews … Ethiopian … The …