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Dance tune (Niggun rikud)
… dance tunes can be divided into two groups: tunes with texts and tunes without texts. These tunes, compared to those of other genres (ie. … of Hassidic music , p. 240; see also Moshe Beregovski, Jewish Instrumental Folk Music , 2001, no. 85, 102. [2] …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… (petition) is a religious practice maintained by several Jewish communities. It consists of gatherings that occur … which up to then had been predominant in the Sephardi Jewish liturgy and piyyut singing in the Middle East, went … component of the Jerusalem-Sephardi tradition. Baqqashot texts in the Jerusalem-Sephardi Tradition The tradition of …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… language like pentatonics, but uses a strongly profiled Jewish prayer mode whose foremost characteristic is a stock … bible, and there are precedents for the connection of Bible texts with Biblical chant. Furthermore, this topical motif … Hanoch Avenary, “The Aspects of Time and Environment in Jewish Traditional Music,” Israel Studies in Musicology, IV …
Mi-al har horev from the manuscripts of Obadiah the Proselyte
… manuscripts of Obadiah the Proselyte. The staff of the Jewish Music Research Centre hopes that the information … of Mi-al har horev , and a fragment with additional Hebrew texts containing neumatic notation. The additional hymn … University collection and the Adler Collection at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Obadiah the Proselyte was born …
Hanukah Blessings
… Blessings while lighting the candles is a well-established Jewish family practice that is usually performed by the head … when the lighting of the candles occurred in community contexts, special musical settings were arranged. Our Song of … the first two bars of the Maoz Tzur melody. Scholars of Jewish music from each generation, such as Eduard Birnbaum, …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… of digital resources have enhanced the study of the Jewish liturgy helping us to make more accurate assessments … we can reconstruct with a certain degree of accuracy how Jewish liturgical practices evolved prior to the invention … in place and could be transferred to the singing of other texts. The thirteen to fourteen century Ashkenazi Mahzor at …
Ner Haviv, Ner Na'eh
… it with an important twist: the identification of texts’ author and an additional musical version, very … on the production together. The writer of most of the texts of the medley was the poet Binyamin Avidany, who wrote … by Sh. Shalom reveals the musical abyss separating diverse Jewish sectors cohabiting in very close proximity in …
Hayrana Laih
… is popular in the Arab world, but also has connections to Jewish musical contexts and musicians. The lyrics of Hayrana Laih were written … Daoud Hosni (1870-1937), an Egyptian composer of Karaite Jewish origins composed it in 1932 for the Egyptian singer …
Ahavat ‘Olamim
… in 2010. This is the third disc in the Contemporary Jewish Music series produced by the Jewish Music Research Centre. It is the product of the … a modern journey into the depths of the Andalusian Jewish musical tradition of Morocco and Algeria. This …
With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen
… which have always been of interest to scholars of Jewish music, just as their unique cultural history has attracted the attention of Jewish scholars from an early stage. Interest in this … This publication of archival recordings of Yemenite Jewish music is still, therefore, considerably pertinent. …