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65. Each and Every Day
… concepts from the Kerala Hebrew piyyut and follows its melody and its musical poetic structure of repeating the … Another interesting aspect of this song is its melody, recognizable to Americans as a variant of the … the English colonial presence. It is also possible that the melody first came to Kerala by way of a widely known …
64. Open Your Gate
… Sefer Tefilat haḤodesh 1931, 13). It is sung to the Hebrew melody. Recorded in 1977 by Sarah Cohen of Paradesi-Kochi, …
63. Singing, Singing
… song “Singing, Singing” is performed to a livelier melody than that of the Hebrew piyyut as it is sung in … The entire song had been performed to virtually the same melody in 1977 by Miriam (Yaakov Hai) Eliyahu from …
61. Lord from the Beginning
… sang and danced it slowly and seriously, with a change of melody when the slow clapping began in stanza 6. Given its …
58. Ahashverosh Song
… melodies. Stanzas 1 and 2 are sung to the Kerala melody for “ Mi Khamokha ve’En Kamokha ,” a lengthy Hebrew … song. Stanza 8, the final section, is sung to a rousing melody with rhythmic punctuation, very likely borrowed or …
57. In the India Kingdom
… (Daniel and Johnson 1996, 89). Venus Lane recognized the melody as the tune used in Kerala for the Hebrew Azharot …
56. The Song of Ruth
… Zionist songs—songs 72 and 74 . Venus Lane notes that the melody for the Song of Ruth, as recorded in 1977 in Moshav Nevatim, is the melody used in her Paradesi community to recite the passage … of Passover. The Song of Ruth was recorded to that same melody by singers from Ernakulam and Chendamangalam. …
53. Moshe and the Promised Land (Song of the Thirteen Sifrei Torah)
… in 1977, sung by three Paradesi women, whose repetitious melody was the same as that recorded the same year by …
51. When Moshe Received Knowledge
… biblical Moshe as the leader of his community. The simple melody holds a steady rhythm, punctuated with handclapping …
50. Little Sinai Mountain
… for the Bridegroom” ( song 24 , stanzas 4–6). This popular melody is also shared with the Hebrew song Kikhlot Yeyni (’ …