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‘Le-El ‘Olam’ by Mordecai Dato: In search of a melody for an ancient Italian Hebrew poem
… of Sefer ha-Maftir (Jerusalem, 1964). Did any traditional melody for ‘Le-El ‘Olam’ survive in oral tradition? … ‘Olam’ at hand and decided to record the unique traditional melody of this poem, which is as we have seen in the … Chief Rabbi of Rome, informed us that he could remember a melody for ‘Le-El ‘Olam’ as it was taught to him by the late …
Ya meḥayei alnafos (He who gives my spirit life)
… and the ensemble responds with the closing hemistich. The melody is in flowing rhythm. The ninth stanza is sung to a new, rhythmic melody, with drum accompaniment. Arussi concludes with a … 9. He begins the first verse of the eighth stanza with the melody with which he began the previous version, but …
1. El atán, el atado y el ara (Et sha'arei ratzon)
… and Perahia Avzaradel from the Island of Rhodes (1a-b). The melody they use is a variant of that of Et sha’arei ratzon … recorded by Sephardic ḥazanim as an autonomous song. Its melody, extremely elaborate and slow, reflects Isaac’s …
2. El merecimiento de Isaac (Im afes rova' ha-qen)
… of rhymed verses. The elaborate traditional Sephardic melody of this Hebrew poem is applied to other texts of the … Hashanah liturgy. Given its importance and popularity, this melody has been recorded commercially at the beginning of …
3. The Little Sister (Aḥot qetanah)
… to end this song with a positive message. As expected, the melody that Rabbi Levy interprets corresponds to that of the … qetanah according to the Turkish Sephardic tradition. This melody is characterized by its slow, non-fixed pulse and … (sung by the entire congregation) that is sung to the melody of the rest of the verses. The form is therefore: …
"Sha'ali yefefiyah" (Ask, lovely one)
… in meter and tempo, and sometimes also in the course of the melody. The opening melody of the song is best known as the tune of the poem …
Hus elohai mime'onkha (Have mercy O Lord, from Thy dwelling)
… while the second, fourth and fifth are sung to another melody, quick and rhythmic, and accompanied by a tin pan. … …
"Saperi tama temima" (Tell, pure and innocent)
… melodies. The soloist chooses the melodies, and one melody is succeeded by another for the sake of variety. The … stanzas in the following manner: stanzas 1,2- first melody; stanza 3 - second melody; stanza 5-third melody; stanza 6 - fourth melody. In …
"Ayumah be-har hamor" (The Beloved on the mountain of myrrh)
… Arussi sing the three stanzas of the song to the same melody accompanied by tin pan and hand clapping, without the … and tin pan, sing the first and third stanzas to a single melody, different from that in the previous version. In the … stanza there is a minor variation; the direction of the melody is altered. 13. Zadok Zubeiri sings only the first …
"Esh'al elohai - Vehalleluya" (I will ask my God - Halleluja)
… 185). The performance emphasizes the way in which the melody is adapted to fit the poetic structure. At the end of … and the ensemble sings the closing hemistich twice, in a melody with a different ending. The first stanza begins with a slow melody in flowing rhythm, but the tawshiḥ is sung to a …