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Mitsve Tants
… to eastern Europe in the 18th century at the latest. In Jewish musar literature and minhagim books of the 17th and … morning service ( sound example 4 ). The use of these texts symbolize the wedding as the Day of Judgment in the …
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 …
Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… Sephardi cantors who use it for singing other liturgical texts. The melody consists of two musical phrases repeated … Judeo-Spanish speaking Jews. The old traditional Ottoman Jewish community ruled by rabbinical authority was shattered … French), to liberal trends in Judaism (especially to Jewish nationalism or Zionism) and to subversive political …
Hanukkah 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 …