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Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… circulates virally in diverse variants, dosages and combinations ad nauseam . [1] These writings and their … It also exemplifies the elusiveness of the symbols of modern nation-states. From the outset, we note that this is … Eliyahu Hacohen, the ultimate connoisseur of the Israeli Hebrew song, who wrote one of the most authoritative studies …
Vemen vestu zingen, vemen? Leibu Levin Performs in Yiddish
… professional evaluation,” wrote back in 1984 the internationally renowned Yiddish singer Nechama Lifshitz in a … and translation of all the texts into English, Hebrew and Russian as well as biographical information about … … Archival recordings … Bukovina … Historical recordings … Modern Yiddish stage … Non-religious Yiddish music … USSR … …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… Coopersmith Hebrew version 1942: … studying them shows the complex process through which modern favorites in the Jewish repertoire were constructed … and Jacob Michael collections in the Sound Archives of the National Library of Israel are a testimony to the presence …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… repertoires were constructed by diverse agents in the modern period. One of the recordings of this song that we … of the Jacob Michael Collection of Jewish Music at the National Sound Archives of the Israel National Library, a … includes therefore the stanza before the last (on the Hebrew letter “shin”), the last one (on the letter “tav”) …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… The text draws from poetic formulae common in early Zionist Hebrew poetry. In Zionist songbooks and collections from the … obscurity and are only known to experts in the history of modern Hebrew song. Na’aleh L’artzeinu is only dimly … collection of Yemenite songs. There are a few possible explanations for this apparently incorrect attribution. One is …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… ever since the day of the Renaissance Humanists. [1] The Hebrew chanting depends on the text, and is determined by … for other reasons, within individual communities and denominations. [26] … in both sections as one of the main sources for the modern musicological use of the term. Dalia Cohen (2006, …
Assaf Shelleg
… Assaf Shelleg is senior lecturer of musicology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was previously the … (Oxford University Press, 2014) studies the emergence of modern Jewish art music in Central and Western Europe in the … romanticist nationalism amid the dissemination of modernist …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… Yemen Shofet kol ha’aretz belongs to the medieval poetic Hebrew genre called pizmon that is characterized by a … Abrahams 1920) Judge of the earth, who wilt arraign The nations at thy judgment seat, With life and favor bless … Of course his terminology is a bit uncomfortable to post-modern ears. Categories of authentic and ethnic musical …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Friedman’s compositional corpus includes music for the Hebrew liturgy, English translations and interpretations of … Settings of Shema’ Koleinu by other composers The combination of the moving words and the inclusion of this prayer … cry”—an octave leap at the opening of a melody—appears in modern Hebrew compositions in which the singing subject …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… the character of the texts included in this compilation. As modernity made its inroads into Jewish homes, more metric … as appendices to Haggadot , and later through the dissemination of commercial recordings and learning kits, many of … Ashkenazi communities, a paraphrase in Yiddish followed the Hebrew text phrase by phrase, a common learning technique in …