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La Gallarda matadora
… who brought the seeds of flamenco to Spain. Moreover, the Jewish expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula occurred … of the history of flamenco almost always mention some Jewish influence on the development of flamenco, although it … cannot be supported by any tangible evidence. Yet, modern texts nurtured such a connection in the context of the …
Marsh (LKT)
… Ukraine, 1820s-30s]. Fridkin 1925, p. 46 . “A Jewish wedding in the shtetl was a holiday... When Arish the … tunes which were usually adopted from the surrounding non-Jewish cultures. The adoption of marches by Hasidim is part … Marches are introduced during the services to poetic texts, such as Lekhah dodi and El adon for the sabbath... …
Sher
… “Sher: One of the most common dance forms in the Jewish repertoire, similar to a square dance or a Russian … their weddings and celebrations, to which they invited Jewish musicians. The Ukrainian youth there danced the šer … is a well-known Russian-Jewish folk tune with a variety of texts in Russian and Yiddish, some of them quite risqu’e, …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… 82-83. Example 8 Harry Coopersmith, editor, Little Books of Jewish Songs: Purim , Chicago: Board of Jewish Education, 1928. Example 9 Jacob Schoenberg, Shirei … melody is still adapted to liturgical and paraliturgical texts in prose. For example it is sung for the second …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… to the text and 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 …
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 … more varied than the style of the baqqashot piyyutim . The texts were written by various poets, beginning in the 19 th …
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 … of the early Hebrew repertoire. The rest of the texts are by canonical poets whose poems were set to music …
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 … to ground the narrative of Hatikvah on canonic Hebrew texts. Imber, a Jew raised in a traditional family, …
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 … with the question of how carriers of folk culture remember texts that are transmitted orally. According to Madar, one …
Or Haganuz
… recalls the way romantic composers interpreted literary texts (in this case liturgical texts and Yiddish poems) in … 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 …