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El Jiwneh Hagalil (Lied der galilaischen Arbeiter) – God will Build the Galilee (Galilee Worker’s Song)
… song (Seroussi 2010). Different tunes, variations of the lyrics, arrangements and performance-practices reshaped its … was printed in small notes in Saminsky’s score with the inscription Original aufgenommen von S. Kisselhoff … imagery, but also an appropriate choice for experimenting with uneven bow distributions in interpreting its diatonic …
65. El baile de los falsos (Sida Musafija)
… , or at least its refrain, originates in an 1895 zarzuela (lyrics by P. Cadenas; music by Pedro Badía) and is not … was “composed” by Charles Borel-Clerc (1879-1959) to lyrics (by Léo Lelièvre and Paul Briollet) whose theme is … ne pressons pas l’mouvement.” This recording ends with an unrelated instrumental piece whose apparent function …
Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs
… as part of the Jerusaem Oud Festival in conjunction with the JMRC and performed on November 22, 2020 at the … leading vocalists in the Judeo-Spanish tradition, along with an ensemble featuring some of Jerusalem's top musicians … content of Jewish Sephardic songs and traditional Muslim lyrics, ‘sevdalinka’, in Bosnia,” Proceedings of the World …
Hin’ni Haaniyah Mimaas (Here I am, poor in worthy deeds)
… improvised-recitative style of Eastern-European Hazzanut with inlays of cantorial motifs and quotes from folk … salient words and phrases of the prayer. Download Hebrew Lyrics … Text and Cantorial Recitative by Eliyahu Schleifer …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… a long improvisatory piece consisting of several sections without clear beat. The easily recognizable pasté often … fits more appropriately with the theme of the text. The lyrics are sung from the perspective of a lover who looks … [See Appendix: Texts , “Kum Am Nachal”]. Mustacchi’s Hebrew lyrics offer the opportunity to sing a very familiar and …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… show-biz biography of Irving Berlin — chattily written, without enthusiasm for challenging any of the myths, giving … to third parties even to cite a few words from his lyrics. As a result, the schmaltzy legends planted via … rewritten finale, and its aggressive (almost sadistic) lyrics. Kaplan also seeks to gloss over the way in which …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Originally, the publication was planned as a collaboration with the late Israeli musicologist of Latvian origin Joachim … . . . tell different stories” (p. xix). Yet as far as song lyrics about Jewish-Latvian encounters are concerned, I … Dschungali Dschun , a corruption of the original Armenian lyrics “Hingala” (see Assaf 2011). The melodic version in …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… , performed by the Coro Hebraeico conducted by Neil Levin with Amy Goldstein as soprano soloist. The piece was … it has not been located, thus far, independent of the lyrics of “Piramidn” in any folk tune collection. The agency … can survive again and again against all historical odds. Lyrics The original song by David Edelstadt “Yetsiyes …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… Chief Rabbinate. 1 Map displaying the extent of the fire, with affected areas shown in black. Though the destruction … rule since 1430, became one of their primary destinations. With this large population influx, Saloniki was transformed … A passage by Weich-Shahak contextualizes portions of the lyrics within a summary of the fire: “The fire started in a …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… have survived in their original performance context or with their melodies of old. The Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini, … characteristic of the Andalusian Sephardic milieu. The lyrics cover an apparently earthly topic, but do so with … it does not appear in the earliest manuscript version. The lyrics of Kikhlot yeini tell a story, as follows: a friend …